The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives by Plutarch

The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives

Plutarch with Pamela Mensch (Translator)

432 pages first pub 100 (view editions)

nonfiction classics history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives is ideal for readers who want to explore how the personal virtues and vices of five pivotal Romans shaped the violent collapse of their republic and still echo in modern political dilemmas.

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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 ...

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