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Implied reference when Mary Beard mentions 'your favourite Roman biographer, Tom, your lad' who wrote 'a systematic account written a century or so later' - this refers to Suetonius's biographical work on Roman emperors including Julius Caesar.

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Extensively quoted and discussed throughout the episode as the primary source for information about Caligula. The hosts read passages from it and analyze Suetonius's account of Caligula's life and reign.

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Referenced multiple times throughout the episode as the primary source for information about Emperor Tiberius. Described as 'Suetonius' great biography of the Caesars' and discussed extensively for its accounts of Tiberius's reign, character, and alleged depravities.

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Referenced as 'Suetonius, the biography of the Caesars' when discussing how Einhard may have drawn physical descriptions of Charlemagne from Suetonius's descriptions of Roman emperors.

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Mentioned as the classical work that Einhard modeled his biography of Charlemagne on; specifically noted that the monastery at Fulda had a complete collection which Einhard read as a young boy

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Tom compares LBJ to 'a character from Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars' when describing Johnson's personality and behavior.

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Referenced as Caesar's biographer who reported the story about Caesar seeing Alexander the Great's statue in Cadiz and having a dream about his mother, written about 180 years after the events

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Referenced when discussing Roman emperors' sexual preferences: 'Suetonius in his Lives of the Caesars describes Claudius as a man who only ever slept with women and Galva as a man who only ever slept with men.'

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Explicitly referenced when discussing the fate of Caesar's murderers. A passage about how none of the assassins outlived Caesar by more than three years is quoted from this work.

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Cited as providing 'our best account' of Caesar's assassination, including details about the 23 wounds and Caesar's final moments, and the description of his body being carried home

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Referenced when discussing parallels between the birth narrative of Jesus and similar prodigies told about Augustus's birth, including a story from a freedman named Julius Marathus about a prophecy of a future king

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Referenced when discussing Suetonius as 'the biographer of the 12 Caesars' who mentions someone called 'Crestus' in the reign of Claudius and references Christians in context of the Great Fire

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Referenced as the source describing what Tiberius allegedly got up to on Capri, containing what Tom describes as 'the single most shocking sentence in the whole of ancient literature'

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Referenced when discussing how Procopius compares Justinian to Domitian, noting that Domitian was 'one of Suetonius' 12 Caesars' - the traditional tyrants of Rome.

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Tom makes an analogy comparing the unreliability of pop star autobiographies to Suetonius's historical accounts, saying 'It's a bit like kind of Soutenius and his Lives of Roman Emperors. You don't know whether it's part of the formula.'

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Referenced when discussing the story of Emperor Otho's dignified suicide. Tom mentions that Suetonius is 'the biographer from whom we get this' story, and notes that Suetonius's father was present when Otho gave his final speech, lending credibility to the account.

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Referenced as a source for the dramatic account of Caesar crossing the Rubicon, including the 'let the die be cast' quote and the apparition with the trumpet

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Tom mentions that Einhardt's biography of Charlemagne was 'modeled on Suetonius' lives of the Caesars,' referencing this classical Roman biographical work as a literary model for the medieval biography.

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Referenced at the end of the episode when reflecting on how historical sources that wallow in pornographic material about figures like Rasputin are similar to ancient sources about Roman emperors.

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Referenced as the classical source that people in the 15th-16th century read to learn about the first twelve Roman emperors and their corrupt nature

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Referenced multiple times as a primary source for Nero's life. Tom mentions reading Suetonius as a child and describes him as 'by far the biggest bitch' among the biographers who wrote about Nero.