 He was a contemporary of Caligula, Claudius, and Nero, but little is known of the extent of his work except that it related to events during the reign of these emperors.Cluvius was one of the primary sources for Tacitus' "Annals" and "Histories", Suetonius' "The Lives of Twelve Caesars", Josephus' "Antiquities of the Jews", Plutarch's "Parallel Lives" and probably for later historians.Cluvius Rufus is mentioned in