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

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…