The book is a history of Rome's emperors, starting with Julius Caesar and ending with Domitian, who ruled during Suetonius' life. Suetonius was known for being more gossipy and irrelevant than some other ancient historians, and his stories of the degeneracy of the emperors are really quite shocking, even in today's age.
Yet what I find amazing is how, on the other hand, there was an elaborate pretense of manners and morality, among the degeneracy (murdering someone in front of others, or the emperor taking a man's wife away from him into the bedroom right at a dinner.)
Today I saw the following juxtaposition on The Drudge Report:
Trump paid off porn star to shush her after sex, which occurred the year after he was married to Melanie, the First Lady;
and,
California Republican candidate's risque film roles have other republicans questioning his candidacy.
And what absolutely stunned me was this quote from one of the actor's primary opponents:
Ret. Air Force Maj. Jeffrey Burum, another Republican in the race, deemed the movies “pornography” and called on Sabato to end his campaign.
“His behavior is inconsistent with anything I would want from a congressional leader. It’s also inconsistent with a party which has always favored traditional family values, which do not include porn,” Burum said.
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