The Age of Caesar, Plutarch
The Age of Caesar, Plutarch
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The Age of Caesar
Five Roman Lives

Author: Plutarch, Pamela Mensch, James S. Romm

Narrator: Michael Page

Unabridged: 11 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/31/2017

Synopsis

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 edition of Plutarch delivers a fresh translation of notable clarity, explanatory notes, and ample historical context.

About Plutarch

Plutarch was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist, known primarily for his Lives and Moralia. He is considered today to be a Middle Platonist. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melora

This translation of Plutarch selects from the Parallel Lives the stories of Pompey, Caesar, Brutus, Cicero, and Antony. Though not “parallel” according to Plutarch's arrangement, the lives of these five Romans, who all lived in the same critical period in Roman history and who interacted as friends,......more

Goodreads review by Ben

The Romans—they're just like us! Okay, not really. But you don't have to dig deep to find the family resemblance. This collection of five of Plutarch's Lives includes Pompey, Caesar, Brutus, Antony, and Cicero, with many lines threading between each of these. Plutarch is entertaining and funny, insig......more

Goodreads review by Foo

I'd wanted to read Plutarch's Parallel Lives for a while, but the classic Loeb collection spans multiple books and is furthermore unavailable in libraries and bookstores (here at least). So imagine my pleasant surprise when I stumbled upon this translation during a library grind. This edition contain......more

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