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The 27 pages that link to Suetonius, each with the reason it gives.

• Pliny the ElderRelated: His biography of Pliny preserves details about the elder’s habits and scholarship.

• TacitusCompared with: His biographical structure differs from Tacitus’s sustained political narratives.

• JosephusCompared with: His brief references to the war contrast with Josephus's extensive history.

• NeroRelated: His anecdotal portrait strongly influenced later stories about Nero’s character and conduct.

• HadrianRelated: Suetonius served in Hadrian's administration, linking the emperor to Roman literary and bureaucratic life.

• Pliny the YoungerRelated: Pliny’s correspondence records his support for Suetonius’s career and literary interests.

• VespasianRelated: His biography supplies anecdotes about Vespasian’s character, policies, and death.

• TiberiusRelated: His biography preserves anecdotes that helped shape later portrayals of Tiberius.

• DomitianRelated: His biography preserves anecdotes about Domitian’s rule, character, and assassination.

• Historia AugustaRelated: The Historia Augusta adopts and transforms biographical conventions associated with his work.

• ClaudiusRelated: His hostile anecdotes helped make Claudius appear weak and easily manipulated.

• TerenceRelated: His biography preserves much of the ancient tradition about Terence’s life.

• Titus (Roman emperor)Related: His biography preserves a detailed, influential portrait of Titus.

• Ancient biographyBroader topic: His imperial lives organize episodes around rulers’ habits, virtues, and vices.

• Persecution of Christians in the Roman EmpireRelated: His references provide a separate, terse account of early imperial responses.

• Acta DiurnaRelated: His account is a key ancient source for Caesar's publication of official proceedings.

• Marcus Junius BrutusRelated: His account of Caesar supplies anecdotes and claims about the assassination’s warnings and participants.

• CaligulaRelated: His anecdotes became a major source for Caligula’s reputation.

• EinhardRelated: Einhard’s structure and character sketches closely draw on Suetonius’s imperial biographies.

• Julio-Claudian dynastyRelated: His biographies shaped later portrayals of the dynasty’s rulers and private lives.

• Caesar cipherRelated: His account preserves the best-known ancient description of Caesar’s shifted-letter messages.

• GalbaRelated: His account supplies details about Galba’s character, reign, and death.

• Great Fire of RomeRelated: His account preserves the famous story that Nero sang while Rome burned.

• Perusine WarRelated: His biography preserves details about Octavian’s conduct and reputation during the conflict.

• The Twelve CaesarsRelated: His imperial biographies supply the collection’s authorship and distinctive organizing perspective.

• CunobelinusRelated: His account names Cunobelinus’s sons among the events preceding the Roman invasion.

• Memoirs of HadrianRelated: His imperial biographies belong to the ancient record Yourcenar draws upon and reshapes.