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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

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(4,511 Sterne; 44 Bewertungen)

The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire. The work was written in 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, while Suetonius was Hadrian's personal secretary. On the Life of the Caesars concentrates on the acts and personalities of the Julio-Claudians and their immediate successors. Together with Tacitus' Annals, this work is a major source for the historical details in Robert Graves' novels "I Claudius" and "Claudius the God". (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Karen Merline.) (16 hr 2 min)

Chapters

Preface

6:10

Read by Graham Redman

Julius Caesar part 1

24:15

Read by Graham Redman

Julius Caesar part 2

26:40

Read by Graham Redman

Julius Caesar part 3

36:08

Read by Graham Redman

Julius Caesar part 4

34:12

Read by Graham Redman

Julius Caesar part 5

18:48

Read by Graham Redman

Caesar Agustus part 1

24:30

Read by ontheroad

Caesar Agustus part 2

26:35

Read by ontheroad

Caesar Agustus part 3

27:45

Read by ontheroad

Caesar Agustus part 4

26:45

Read by Leni

Caesar Agustus part 5

27:10

Read by Leni

Caesar Agustus part 6

25:50

Read by Leni

Tiberius part 1

26:46

Read by Kristine Bekere

Tiberius part 2

29:34

Read by Kristine Bekere

Tiberius part 3

26:06

Read by Kristine Bekere

Tiberius part 4

28:07

Read by Kristine Bekere

Caligula part 1

34:11

Read by Andrew Coleman

Caligula part 2

34:27

Read by Andrew Coleman

Caligula part 3

35:18

Read by Andrew Coleman

Claudius part 1

27:31

Read by BUAES

Claudius part 2

24:16

Read by BUAES

Claudius part 3

23:06

Read by BUAES

Nero part 1

24:59

Read by Philippa

Nero part 2

23:56

Read by Philippa

Nero part 3

24:07

Read by Philippa

Nero part 4

22:01

Read by Philippa

Galba part 1

20:50

Read by Andrew Coleman

Galba part 2

18:45

Read by Andrew Coleman

Otho

24:32

Read by Andrew Coleman

Vitellius

32:23

Read by Andrew Coleman

Vespasian part 1

18:38

Read by icyjumbo (1964-2010)

Vespasian part 2

20:31

Read by icyjumbo (1964-2010)

Titus

16:23

Read by David Leeson

Domitian part 1

21:36

Read by David Leeson

Domitian part 2

21:17

Read by David Leeson

Lives of Eminent Grammarians part 1

18:46

Read by Leni

Lives of Eminent Grammarians part 2

19:50

Read by Leni

Lives of Eminent Rhetoricians

12:45

Read by Anne Cheng

Lives of the Poets

26:35

Read by Sibella Denton

Bewertungen

(5 Sterne)

An elegant review with insights for students and professionals.

(4 Sterne)

Good narration despite not having a consistent person reading.

Twelve Caesars Today

(4,5 Sterne)

Not all that long ago in an empire quite close to ours, a deeply flawed "democracy" collapsed under the weight of its systemic corruption and deeply institutionalised violence. Sound familiar? The fall of the Roman Republic and its transformation into a permenant dictatorship (as told by the secretary to one of its emperors) is an eye opening tale of power, intrigue, mass murder and madness to put Game of Thrones to shame. Those who fail to understand history are condemned to repeat it.

Maybe More Than You Wanted to Know

(4 Sterne)

Two things: 1) the author supposes that you have a thorough grasp of Roman History to start with; 2) you might not want to listen to this with the kids in the car unless you are willing to explain to an alert 10-year-old what a catamite is. There are no punches pulled, although the translator uses charming 19th century euphemisms for some activities. Our high school history books cleaned things up a Lot!

great narration

(5 Sterne)

I enjoyed this book. Thank you All for taking the time to read it

(3 Sterne)

Overall its great, just a little jarring with so many different readers

(5 Sterne)

thank you for converting to English

Accents

(3 Sterne)

The reader Leni is hard to understand at times. update- Kristine's is worse! If I didn't know a tiny bit about the Caesars, I would have no idea what she was saying.