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The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives
Written by Plutarch
Narrated by Michael Page
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
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 edition of Plutarch delivers a fresh translation of notable clarity, explanatory notes, and ample historical context.
This edition of Plutarch delivers a fresh translation of notable clarity, explanatory notes, and ample historical context.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHighbridge Company
TranslatorPamela Mensch and James S. Romm
Release dateJan 31, 2017
ISBN9781681683782
Author
Plutarch
Plutarch was a Greek biographer and essayist, known primarily for his Lives and Moralia. He is classified as a Middle Platonist. Plutarch’s surviving works were written in Greek, but intended for both Greek and Roman readers.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great reading. Always nice to know ancient history, especially Roman history.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This translation of Plutarch selects from the “Parallel Lives” the stories of Pompey, Caesar, Brutus, Cicero, and Antony. Though not “parallel” according to Plutarch's arrangement, the lives of these five Romans, who all lived in the same critical period in Roman history and who interacted as friends, enemies, and in-laws, provide a “360 degree panorama” view of the acts and intriguing of these key players in events in the mid-1st century BC. James Romm and Mary Beard provide interesting and helpful introductions, and Pamela Mensch's translation flows along with vigor and clarity. I enjoyed this as an audio recording, read by Michael Page. Four and a quarter stars – the last chapter, on Antony, made me a little cranky – he was such an idiot – but it seems unfair to punish Plutarch for my loathing for Antony, so he gets that last star on credit.