The Age of Caesar Five Roman Lives

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The Age of Caesar Five Roman Lives

Author	: Plutarch
File Size	: 52,5 Mb
Publisher	: W. W. Norton & Company
Language	: English
Release Date	: 31 January 2017
ISBN	: 9780393292831
Pages	: 416 pages

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The Age of Caesar Five Roman Lives by Plutarch Book PDF Summary

“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 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 reader’s edition of Plutarch delivers a fresh translation of notable clarity, explanatory notes, and ample historical context in the Preface and Introduction.

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