The Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives

Six biographies that illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of Rome's greatest statesmen during the fall of the Roman Empire

Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesman of the classical period. Taken from The Lives, a series of biographies spanning the Graeco-Roman age, this collection illuminates the twilight of...