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This set of twelve biographies, written in the same manner as his Lives of the Caesars, was rather hot stuff: even the Caesars had been pretty racy. Because this book includes biographies of Cytheris, Lais, Aspasia, Thaïs and Rhodopis, it is…

Besides his Commentaries, bane of so many young scholars, the Divine Julius wrote, as a youth, a tragedy on Oedipus and a long poem praising Hercules. Pompeius Macer, Augustus’ librarian, proposed to the emperor that these works be published in…