A 2000 year old novel, considered a “gossip-y” account of the Roman Emperors’ personal lives, has entered the book’s bestseller charts.

The Lives of the Caesars, originally written in Latin by Roman historian Suetonius in AD 121, was translated into English by The Rest Is History podcast co-host Tom Holland and published on February 13.

Originally titled ‘De vita Caesarum’, the book is a set of twelve biographies of the first emperors of the Roman Empire: Julius Caesar, Augustus,…