The age of Caesar : five Roman lives / Plutarch ; translated by Pamela Mensch ; edited, with preface and notes, by James Romm ; introduction by Mary Beard.

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Lives. Selections. English
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]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Statesmen > Rome > Biography > Early works to 1800.
Generals > Rome > Biography > Early works to 1800.
Rome > Biography > Early works to 1800.
Generals.
Statesmen.
Rome (Empire)
Biographies.
Early works.
Comics (Graphic works)
Genre:
Biography
Early works to 1800.
Biographies.
Early works.
Comics (Graphic works)
Physical Description:xxviii, 393 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
Five Roman lives
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Plutarch: five Roman lives
  • Pompey
  • Caesar
  • Cicero
  • Brutus
  • Antony
  • Appendix: the Roman Constitution / by J. E. Lendon.