The Age of Caesar - Five Roman Lives
Author(s): Plutarch; James Romm (Editor); Pamela Mensch (Translator); Mary Beard (Foreword by)
"Plutarch regularly shows that great leaders transcend their own purely material interests and petty, personal vanities. Noble ideals actually do matter, in government as in life." --Michael Dirda, Washington Post
Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names still resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives pose a question that haunts us still: how to safeguard a republic from the flaws of its leaders.
This reader's edition of Plutarch delivers a fresh translation of notable clarity, explanatory notes, and ample historical context in the Preface and Introduction.
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- : W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
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- : 01 January 2018
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- : Plutarch; James Romm (Editor); Pamela Mensch (Translator); Mary Beard (Foreword by)