#annals

BL manga used to be 50+ chapters long and have side characters and stories now you can either read a maximum 6 chapter one shot or a korean webtoon that has 94 chapters and looks like this

Okay so I get that Suetonius is the most famous biographer when it comes to Julio-Claudian emperors (Thank Robert Graves for that), but he will never be as wild as Tacitus when it comes to narrating facts. I mean the man has the audacity to say he will be completely neutral to mantain historical accuracy and then proceeds to roast every single person he can name (with the exception ofc of his golden boy Germanicus, who never ever did anything wrong in his life).

Oh brother, an Arcean. I knew an Arcean once. I take it that you also believe in loving thy neighbor and mercy and altruism?

[...] it was Seneca who sought a female's aid against a woman's fascinations, and hurried in Acte, the freed-girl, who alarmed at her own peril and at Nero's disgrace, told him that the incest was notorious, as his mother boasted of it, and that the soldiers would never endure the rule of an impious sovereign.

Undoubtedly the liberator of Germany; a man who, not in its infancy as captains and kings before him, but in the high noon of its sovereignty, threw down the challenge to the Roman nation in battle with ambiguous results, in war without defeat; he completed thirty-seven years of life, twelve of power, and to this day is sung in tribal lays, though he is an unknown being to the Greek historians, who admire only the glory of Greece, and receives less than his due from us of Rome, who glorify the ancient days and show little concern for our own.