Suetonius

Just finished a book called "The Twelve Ceasars" by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. This would have to be the oldest book I have read. He wrote it around 90AD and covered the doings of 12 Emperors starting with Julius Caesar and finishing at Domitian. The style is more like listing facts. The book covered from 100BC to 96AD and most of these guys were assassinated. Trajan and Hadrian were the next two but Suetonius was living at the time of these so he didn't want to push it. My old mate Gaius Valerius Catullus gets a mention when he lampooned Caesar in a poem but Jules got him over for dinner for a chin wag. This was one of the books where Uncle Bernie filled in time by filling out complex Readers Digest forms. At least this one got read.

Hardback Folio Edition