FALL OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC : PENGUIN CLASSICS / REX WARNER TRANSLATION
By Unknown Author.
Description
Dramatic artist natural scientist and philosopher Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era writing sharp and succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesman of the classical period Taken from The Lives a series of biographies spanning the Graeco Roman age this collection illuminates the twilight of the old Roman Republic from 157 43 BC Whether describing the would be dictators Marius and Sulla the battle between Crassus and Spartacus the death of political idealist Crato Julius Caesar s harrowing triumph in Gaul or the eloquent oratory of Cicero a...
ISBN(s)
0140449345, 9780140449341
