The Age of Caesar - Five Roman Lives

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Major figures in the civil wars that ended the Roman Republic, the names Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus and Antony haunt us with questions of character and authority. Plutarch's rich, vivid profiles show character-shaping history through grand scale events and intimate details. The creator and master of the biographical form, Plutarch locates character in small gestures such as Brutus's punctilious use of money or Caesar's plainspoken discourse. In this reader's edition, the translation lends a straightforward clarity to the prose and the notes identify people, places and events in the text. The substantial introduction and foreword explore Plutarch as an historical figure and the history of the Republic's fall. Zusammenfassung An outstanding new edition of Plutarch! the inventor of biography! focused on five lives that remade the Roman world.

Product details

• Authors: Plutarch
• Assisted by: James Romm (Editor), James (Bard College) Romm (Editor), Romm James (Editor), Beard Mary (Foreword), Pamela Mensch (Translation), Mensch Pamela (Translation)
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.03.2017
• EAN: 9780393292824
• ISBN: 978-0-393-29282-4
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 242 mm x 34 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Ancient Rome, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Biography: historical, political and military, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory