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The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives

By Plutarch, James Romm (Editor), Pamela Mensch (Translator), Mary Beard (Foreword by)
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By Plutarch, James Romm (Editor), Pamela Mensch (Translator), Mary Beard (Foreword by)
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"Plutarch regularly shows that great leaders transcend their own purely material interests and petty, personal vanities. Noble ideals actually do matter, in government as in life." —Michael Dirda, Washington Post


A brilliant new translation of five of history’s greatest lives from Plutarch, the inventor of biography.

Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives still h...

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HistoryAncient HistoryRome - Ancient HistoryGeneral & Miscellaneous Ancient Roman History