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THE best-selling author on classical history Each of the Caesars receives a separate chapter and is treated in a comprehensive and accessible way Covers the same ground as Suetonius, but deploys up-to-date scholarship and judgement to paint a truer picture of the Caesars

About the Author

Michael Grant (1914-2004) was a highly successful and renowned historian of the ancient world. He held many academic posts including those of Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University; Vice Chancellor of The Queen's University, Belfast and Vice Chancellor of the University of Khartoum. He was a Doctor of Letters at Dublin and a Doctor of Laws at Belfast. He has also been President of the Classical Association of England, the Virgil Society and the Royal Numismatic Society, and was a Medallist of the American Numismatic Society.