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    Can you trust Suetonius?
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    Author: * Maximius Flavius - 1 Post on this thread out of 1,875 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Nov 9, 2003 - 20:38

    I think this man is most unreliable and STILL the picture we have of many prominent Romans, especially us non-historians, is coloured by Suetonius's text. He had the access to writings on and by many emperors - but still much of what he tells is rather fantastic.

    Can we trust him one little bit? Did he really think he was telling the truth about Vespasian performing a miracle in Egypt, or did he probably add that himself, for example?

    Enlighten me, please!


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