The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives - Softcover

Plutarch

 
9780393355529: The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives

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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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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

James Romm is the author of Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero and a classicist who teaches at Bard College.

Pamela Mensch is the translator of Herodotus and Arrian, and she lives in New York City.

Mary Beard is the author of the best-selling The Fires of Vesuvius and the National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated Confronting the Classics and SPQR. A popular blogger and television personality, Beard is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. She lives in England.

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ISBN 10:  0393292827 ISBN 13:  9780393292824
Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 2017
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