Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus c70c140 also known as Suetonius was aprominent Roman historian and biographer. He is mainly remembered as the authorof De Vita Caesa... » 

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus c70c140 also known as Suetonius was aprominent Roman historian and biographer. He is mainly remembered as the authorof De Vita Caesarum Lives of the Caesars best known in English as The TwelveCaesars his only extant work. The Twelve Caesars probably written inHadrians time is a collective biography of the Roman Empires first leaderswho were Julius Caesar Augustus Tiberius Caligula Claudius Nero GalbaOtho Vitellius Vespasian Titus and Domitian. The work tells the tale of eachCaesars life according to a set formula the descriptions of appearanceomens family history quotes and then a history are given in a consistentorder for each Caesar. Suetonius regarded emperors who amassed wealth for thepublic purse to be greedy perhaps a reflection of the average Roman middleclass attitudes. «