The age of Caesar : five Roman lives / Plutarch ; translated by Pamela Mensch ; edited, with preface and notes, by James Romm ; introduction by Mary Beard.
"An outstanding new edition of Plutarch, the inventor of biography, focused on five lives that remade the Roman world. 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, they haunt us wit...
Uniform Title: | Lives.
Selections. English |
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Main Author: | Plutarch (Author) |
Other Authors: |
Mensch, Pamela, 1956-
(Translator) Romm, James S. (Editor) Beard, Mary, 1955- (Writer of introduction) |
Language: | English |
Language of the Original: |
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) |
Published: |
New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2017]
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Physical Description: | xxviii, 393 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Variant Title: |
Five Roman lives |
Format: | Book |