The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives
Plutarch
ISBN 10: 0393355527 ISBN 13: 9780393355529
Editorial: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018
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Descripción:
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Sinopsis:
Major figures in the civil wars that ended the Roman Republic, the names Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus and Antony haunt us with questions of character and authority. Plutarch’s rich, vivid profiles show character-shaping history through grand scale events and intimate details. The creator and master of the biographical form, Plutarch locates character in small gestures such as Brutus’s punctilious use of money or Caesar’s plainspoken discourse. In this reader’s edition, the translation lends a straightforward clarity to the prose and the notes identify people, places and events in the text. The substantial introduction and foreword explore Plutarch as an historical figure and the history of the Republic’s fall.
Acerca de los autores:
James Romm is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College and editor of the Ancient Lives biography series from Yale University Press. He is the author of several other studies of Greek and Roman history, and his reviews and essays appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Review of Books.
Pamela Mensch is the translator of Herodotus and Arrian, and she lives in New York City.
Mary Beard is the author of the best-selling The Fires of Vesuvius and the National Book Critics Circle Award–nominated Confronting the Classics and SPQR. A popular blogger and television personality, Beard is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. She lives in England.
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Título: The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives
Editorial: W. W. Norton & Company
Año de publicación: 2018
Encuadernación: Paperback
Condición: Very Good
Condición de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket