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The Age of Caesar

Audiobook
Nonfiction: History
Unabridged   11.75 hour(s)
Publication date: 01/31/2017

The Age of Caesar

Five Roman Lives

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Audio CD ISBN:9781681683775
Digital Download ISBN:9781681683782

Summary

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

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Product Description

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 haunt us as examples of how the hunger for personal power can overwhelm collective politics, how the exaltation of the military can corrode civilian authority, and how the best intentions can lead to disastrous consequences. Plutarch renders these history-making lives as flesh-and-blood characters, often by deftly marshaling small details such as the care Brutus exercised in his use of money or the disdain Caesar felt for the lofty eloquence of Cicero.

Plutarch was a Greek intellectual who lived roughly one hundred years after the age of Caesar. At home in the world of Roman power, he preferred to live in the past, among the great figures of Greek and Roman history. He intended his biographical profiles to be mirrors of character that readers could use to inspire their own values and behavior—emulating virtues and rejecting flaws. For Plutarch, character was destiny for both the individual and the republic. He was our first master of the biographical form, a major source for Shakespeare and Gibbon.

Author Bio

Plutarch (c. AD 45–AD 120) was an influential Greek historian, biographer, and essayist. A prolific writer, he is best known for his Parallel Lives and Moralia.