The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives

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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.

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Plutarch was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist, known primarily for his Lives and Moralia. He is considered today to be a Middle Platonist. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi.

Michael Page has been recording audiobooks since the mid-1980s and now has nearly 500 titles to his credit. He has won two Audie Awards and several AudioFile Earphones Awards. A PhD and a professional actor, Michael is also a retired professor of theater.

Pamela Mensch is a translator of ancient Greek literature who lives in New York City. Her translations include The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander, Histories: Herodotus, The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives, Plutarch, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: Diogenes Laertius, and Theophrastus: Characters.

James S. Romm is the editor and translator of Seneca's How to Keep Your Cool and How to Die and the author of Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books, among other publications.

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