Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to The Twelve Caesars
Suetonius' biography of the Roman elite rulers
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Twelve Caesars launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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"On what slender threads do life and fortune hang"
2015 · its alternatives →
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Driving home from work one day, I wanted to know how many people we knew the names of who lived during the Roman era. Searching around, I found lists of Consuls and officials, but nothing that covered ordinary people or even most people like freedmen and slaves. So I ended up building a pipeline to process the more than 500k Latin inscriptions in the Epigraphic Database Clauss-Slaby https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/en/ and extract the names of people (and attempt to cluster them, but this is a work in progress). There are databases where Classicists have done this manually for…
Jun 2026 · new.roman-names.com · its alternatives →
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Comprehensive guide to choosing a content management system
2017 · its alternatives →
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Understanding the universal hero journey across mythologies
2015 · its alternatives →
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Detailed biography of a quiet revolutionary
2015 · its alternatives →
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Engaging survey of incredible stories from 1095 - 1453 CE
2016 · its alternatives →
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