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Title: Remember it's a biographical work!
Review: Suetonius' Twelve Lives (or alternative titles) is an excellent primary source for people wanting to learn more about the biographical sides of the emperors of Rome. Any serious student will recognise that most of the Lives are not contemporary and are filled with the choicest gossip - current theory is that Suetonius is responsible for the extremely bad press Tiberius unfairly gets. What comes across most about Suetonius is a reminder that primary ancient sources are just as liable as twenty-first ones to suffer from bias, but nonetheless it is a remarkable work.Robert Graves translation is the finest out there, which is why this version is the standard.
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