Suetonius

==Works==
===The Twelve Caesars===
{{Main|The Twelve Caesars}}
Suetonius is mainly remembered as the author of ''De Vita Caesarum''—translated as ''The Life of the Caesars'', although a more common English title is ''The Lives of the Twelve Caesars'' or simply ''[[The Twelve Caesars]]''—his only extant work except for the brief biographies and other fragments noted below. ''The Twelve Caesars'', probably written in Hadrian's time, is a collective biography of the Roman Empire's first leaders, [[Julius Caesar]] (the first few chapters are missing), [[Augustus]], [[Tiberius]], [[Caligula]], [[Claudius]], [[Nero]], [[Galba]], [[Otho]], [[Vitellius]], [[Vespasian]], [[Titus]] and [[Domitian]]. The book was dedicated to his friend [[Gaius Septicius Clarus]], a [[prefect]] of the [[Praetorian Guard]] in 119.<ref>{{cite book |first=Leighton Durham |last=Reynolds |author-link=Leighton Durham Reynolds |title=Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics |location=Oxford |year=1980 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cJ11AAAAIAAJ |publisher=[[Clarendon Press]] |page=509 |isbn=978-0-19-814456-4 |quote=The dedication, in the lost preface, is recorded by a sixth-century source when the text was still complete}}</ref> The work tells the tale of each Caesar's life according to a set formula: the descriptions of appearance, omens, family history, quotes, and then a history are given in a consistent order. He recorded the earliest accounts of [[List of people with epilepsy|Julius Caesar's epileptic seizures]].

===Other works===

====Partly extant====
*''De Viris Illustribus'' ("On Famous Men" &mdash; in the field of literature), to which belong:
**''De Illustribus Grammaticis'' ("Lives of the [[Grammarian (Greco-Roman)|Grammarians]]"; 20 brief lives, apparently complete)
**''De Claris Rhetoribus'' ("Lives of the Rhetoricians"; 5 brief lives out of an original 16 survive)
**''De Poetis'' ("Lives of the Poets"; the life of [[Virgil]], as well as fragments from the lives of [[Terence]], [[Horace]] and [[Marcus Annaeus Lucanus|Lucan]], survive)
**''De Historicis'' ("Lives of the historians"; a brief life of [[Pliny the Elder]] is attributed to this work)
*''Peri ton par' Hellesi paidion'' ("Greek Games")
*''Peri blasphemion'' ("Greek Terms of Abuse")
The two last works were written in Greek. They apparently survive in part in the form of extracts in later Greek glossaries.

====Lost works====
The following list of Suetonius's lost works is from [[Robert Graves]]'s foreword to his translation of the ''Twelve Caesars.''<ref>{{cite book |author=Suetonius |translator-last=Graves |translator-first=Robert |translator-link=Robert Graves |title=Suetonius: The Twelve Caesars |year=1957 |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |location=Hamondsworth, Middlesex, England |page=7 |edition=1st |chapter=Foreword |editor-last=Rives |editor-first=James |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/35589/the-twelve-caesars/}}</ref>
*''Royal Biographies''
*''Lives of Famous Whores''
*''Roman Manners and Customs''
*''The Roman Year''
*''The Roman Festivals''
*''Roman Dress''
*''Greek Games''
*''Offices of State''
*''On Cicero's Republic''
*''Physical Defects of Mankind''
*''Methods of Reckoning Time''
*''An Essay on Nature''
*''Greek Objurations''
*''Grammatical Problems''
*''Critical Signs Used in Books''

The introduction to the Loeb edition of Suetonius, translated by J. C. Rolfe, with an introduction by  K. R. Bradley, references the ''[[Suda]]'' with the following titles:
*''On Greek games''
*''On Roman spectacles and games''
*''On the Roman year''
*''On critical signs in books''
*''On Cicero's Republic''
*''On names and types of clothes''
*''On insults''
*''On Rome and its customs and manners''

The volume adds other titles not testified within the Suda.
*''On famous courtesans''
*''On kings''
*''On the institution of offices''
*''On physical defects''
*''On weather signs''
*''On names of seas and rivers''
*''On names of winds''

Two other titles may also be collections of some of the aforelisted:

*''Pratum (Miscellany)''
*''On various matters''