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The Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives (1958)

by Plutarch

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Bought it for a class in Roman Civ. Worked like a charm. ( )
1 vote dekesolomon | Nov 10, 2009 |
I found some of this rather dry, esp. the earlier lives which were very full of military manoeuvres and didn't bring across the subjects very well. The sections on Caesar and Cicero were the most readable, partly because the events were more familiar to me. The overlap between events in the respective accounts could be confusing in places. Overall, this edition could definitely benefit from some commentary, notes and maps, notwithstanding the foreword's remark about the simplicity of the author's style not needing further explanation. As it stands, there is no contextualisation for the non-expert reader. ( )
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(Translator's Introduction by Rex Warner): Plutarch was one of the last of the classical Greek historians; indeed one may almost say he was one of the last of the classical Greeks.
The biography of Marius is one of the least satisfactory of Plutarch's Roman lives from the historian's point of view.
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Collects the lives of Marius, Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, Caesar, Cicero
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Rome’s famed historian illuminates the twilight of the old Roman Republic from 157 to 43 BC in succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesmen of the classical period.

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