Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

When did Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus live?

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus is dated c. AD 69 – after 122 in the archive, which places Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus in the Apologists (AD 130–180). The dating is traditional and approximate; the archive marks it as uncertain rather than fixing a year the sources do not give.

What did Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus write?

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus has 1 catalogued writing in the archive: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars.

Which early sources mention Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus?

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus is named in 2 primary-source passages catalogued here, drawn from Jerome and Paulus Orosius. Every passage is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.

Where was Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus from?

The archive associates Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus with Rome.

Punishment was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.

You urge me, Dexter, to follow the example of Tranquillus in giving a systematic account of ecclesiastical writers, and to do for our authors what he did for the illustrious men of letters among the gentiles.

[Orosius quotes Suetonius by name for the expulsion of the Jews from Rome over Chrestus.]

Orosius's Historiae adversus paganos, seven books written in Africa in AD 417–418 at Augustine's request — the first world history written from a Christian standpoint, and the standard work of reference on antiquity for the medieval West. Critical text: Karl Zangemeister, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum 5 (1882). English translations: Irving Woodworth Raymond (Columbia, 1936), Roy J. Deferrari, Fathers of the Church 50 (1964), and A. T. Fear, Translated Texts for Historians 54 (Liverpool, 2010); none of the three is in the public domain, so quotations here are rendered from Zangemeister's Latin.