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Church father Tertullian wrote: "We read the lives of the Cæsars: At Rome Nero was the first who stained with blood the rising faith" [17] Mary Ellen Snodgrass notes that Tertullian in this passage "used Suetonius as a source by quoting Lives of the Caesars as proof that Nero was the first Roman emperor to murder Christians", but cites not a specific passage in Suetonius's Lives as Tertullian ...
Bust of Tiberius. Suetonius opens his book on Tiberius by highlighting his ancestry as a member of the patrician Claudii, and recounts his birth father's career as a military officer both under Caesar and as a supporter of Lucius Antonius in his rebellion against Octavian. Upon the resumption of peace, Octavian took an interest in Livia, and ...
Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus [b] (/ t aɪ ˈ b ɪər i ə s / ty-BEER-ee-əs; 16 November 42 BC – 16 March AD 37) was Roman emperor from AD 14 until 37. He succeeded his stepfather Augustus, the first Roman emperor. Tiberius was born in Rome in 42 BC to Roman politician Tiberius Claudius Nero and his wife, Livia Drusilla. In 38 BC ...
The Miracle Maker: The Story of Jesus (2000) Another great option for families and particularly kids, The Miracle Maker: The Story of Jesus uses stop-motion animation to shed light on the miracles ...
Jesus (also known as The Jesus Film) is a 1979 American Biblical drama film directed by Peter Sykes and John Krish, and produced by John Heyman. In Jesus , the life of Jesus Christ is depicted, primarily using the Gospel of Luke as the main basis for the story.
Antonius Felix (possibly Tiberius Claudius Antonius Felix, [1] in Greek: ὁ Φῆλιξ; born c. 5–10) was the fourth Roman procurator of Judea Province in 52–60, in succession to Ventidius Cumanus. He appears in the New Testament in Acts 23 and 24, where the Apostle Paul is brought before him for a trial. [2]
Monty Python's Life of Brian: 1979 dir. by Terry Jones: The Last Temptation of Christ: 1988 dir. by Martin Scorsese, with Willem Dafoe as Jesus Christ The Gospel of John: 2003 A 3-hr account narrated by Christopher Plummer word-for-word from The Good News Bible. Ben-Hur: 2003 animated version (the fourth in all) of the novel by Lew Wallace
Suetonius is mainly remembered as the author of De Vita Caesarum—translated as The Life of the Caesars, although a more common English title is The Lives of the Twelve Caesars or simply The Twelve Caesars—his only extant work except for the brief biographies and other fragments noted below.