The Age of Caesar - Five Roman Lives

Plutarch; James Romm (Editor); Pamela Mensch (Translator); Mary Beard (Foreword by)

"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 year...