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Discussed as a series of biographical works pairing Greek and Roman figures, specifically mentioning Plutarch's life of Caesar paired with Alexander the Great. Mary Beard notes 'we tend to read these lives as singletons' but Plutarch wrote them as pairs.

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Referenced as an autobiographical work by Caesar himself - 'we call them the commentaries on the war in Gaul, et cetera. But it's essentially autobiography.' Discussed as a key contemporary source for understanding Caesar.

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Implied reference when Mary Beard mentions 'your favourite Roman biographer, Tom, your lad' who wrote 'a systematic account written a century or so later' - this refers to Suetonius's biographical work on Roman emperors including Julius Caesar.