Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly known as Suetonius (ca.

69/72 – after 130), is a Roman historian belonging to the equestrian order in the early Imperial era.

His most important surviving work is a set of biographies of twelve successive Roman rulers, from Julius Caesar to Domitian, entitled De Vita Caesarum.

He records the earliest accounts of Julius Caesar's epileptic seizures.

Other works by Suetonius concern the daily life of Rome, politics, oratory, and the lives of famous writers, including poets, historians, and grammarians.

A few of these books have partially survived, but many have been lost.