Dē vītā Caesarum vs The golden asse of Lucius Apuleius: Which Should You Read?

Dē vītā Caesarum Suetonius · 1470 ★★★★☆ 3.8 432 pages · ≈ 8 h 00 m · Demanding

De vita Caesarum, known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies, each about one of the Roman emperors, including one on Julius Caesar. It was written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly referred to as…

The golden asse of Lucius Apuleius Ovid · 1469 ★★★★☆ 3.8 59 pages · ≈ 1 h 06 m · Demanding

"These rhetorical texts by Apuleius, second-century Latin writer and author of the famous novel Metamorphoses or Golden Ass, have not been translated in English since 1909. They are some of the very few Latin speeches…