Donna Hurley has done a sterling job in providing us with both an
Introduction to Suetonius and a translation of The Caesars that we
can confidently recommend to students. Her Introduction summarizes
a complex topic succinctly and is informative without being
overwhelming, set at an ideal level for the student and intelligent
enthusiast. Her translation is accurate and contemporary. Her
primary goal is faithfulness to the original, which she achieves,
but at the same time she recognizes the need to make her text
clear, entertaining, and comprehensible to the modern reader, and
she strikes exactly the right balance. --Anthony Barrett, Emeritus,
University of British Columbia