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

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