6 COMPACT DISCS - 7 hours, 13 minutes - Publisher, Naxos Audiobooks (May 2005)

Suetonius wrote his Lives of the Twelve Caesars in the reign of Vespasian around 70AD. He chronicled the extraordinary careers of Julius, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Vespasian and Domitian and the rest in technicolour terms. They presented some high and low times at the heart of the Roman Empire. The accounts provide us with perspicacious insights into the men as much as their reigns — and it was from Suetonius that subsequent writers such as Robert Graves drew so much of their material.

About the Narrator: Derek Jacobi is one of Britain's leading actors, having made his mark on stage, film and television — and notably on audiobook. He is particularly known for the roles of I Claudius and Brother Caedfael, both of which he has recorded for audiobook. His extensive theatrical credits, from London's West End to Broadway, include numerous roles encompassing the whole range of theatre. He also reads The History of Theatre and The History of English Literature for Naxos AudioBooks.