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Originally Posted by Einherjar86
Zeph, just curious: have you ever read Conn Iggulden's Caesar tetralogy? It's a series of novels based on the life of Julius Caesar. As far as I can tell it's not historically accurate, but it's pretty damn entertaining.
Anyway, in the books there's a character named Suetonius who is a perpetual nuisance to Caesar and Brutus. I'm assuming it's the same Suetonius who later wrote The Twelve Caesers. I was wondering if he actually was a childhood acquaintance of theirs.
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First of all, the Suetonius who wrote
The Twelve Caesars was born in 70 AD, over a century after Julius Caesar's death.
I appreciate the recommendation, but I'd much rather read the primary source. I'd rather read histories/biographies written by people who lived within their subject's context. This is also why I'm concurrently reading Herodotus'
Histories.