Ancient Roman Gossip Book Makes The Bestseller List 2,000 Years After Its Original Publication

Ancient Roman Gossip Book Makes The Bestseller List 2,000 Years After Its Original Publication

Tom Holland's translation of Suetonius' gossip-filled "The Lives of the Caesars" has become Penguin Classics' first hardback nonfiction bestseller.

Ancient Book Becomes a Bestseller 2,000 Years After Its First Publication

Julius Caesar, whose biography, along with 11 Roman emperors, is documented in ‘The Lives of the Caesars’. Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art / CC0 1.0 An ancient book about the lives of Roman emperors has reached the Sunday Times Hardback Non-Fiction Bestseller List, marking a rare literary achievement for a historical text. “The Lives of the Caesars,” originally written in Latin by Roman historian Suetonius in the early second century, has bee…