Audio book review of the unabridged version of “The Twelve Caesars” by Suetonius  (Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus circa A.D. 69-circa 140).  I have to say this one is very long and yet I find I like listening to the stories.  For an ancient work, it is really quite good.  I also have to say that the lives of the first 12 Caesars are more like the people in Dynasty or daytime soap operas.  The book is really quite graphic and is not suitable for younger children.  I found when I was driving the kids to their grandparents in the morning I had to turn it off a few times.  The Audio book is 13 hours long and I think I could actually sit and listen to the whole thing at one time.  Trust me there are some things I had to look up like what the Equestrians: were and what a Praetorian is.  Then there is the place names that are all but meaningless to me, well I do know where Greece is and where the Germans were.  All of that aside, the gossip is crazy, who is sleeping with who and are they related.  Who killed who, and on it goes.   

I just finished the book “Alexander the Great” by the Roman historian Arrian.