C. Suetonius Tranquillus was a Roman historian and biographer who lived during the first and second centuries AD. He was born in approximately 69 AD in Hippo Regius, a city in the Roman province of Africa. His father was a Roman knight and served as a military tribune in Britain. Suetonius received a good education and studied rhetoric and literature in Rome. Suetonius began his career as a public official under the emperor Trajan, serving as a secretary in the imperial chancery. He later became a teacher of rhetoric and grammar, and wrote several works on literary criticism. However, he is best known for his biographical works, particularly The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars is a series of biographies of the first twelve Roman emperors, from Julius Caesar to Domitian. The work is divided into twelve books, each dedicated to one emperor. Suetonius drew on a variety of sources, including official records, personal letters, and gossip, to create a vivid and entertaining portrait of
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