Title: Roman lives :
Authors: Plutarch.; Stadter, Philip A.; Waterfield, Robin,
Date: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Physical description: xxxiv, 551 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: D
Abstract: "In the eight lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures of classical Rome. He portrays virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, but his purpose is also implicitly to educate and warn those in his own day who wielded power. In prose that is rich, elegant, and sprinkled with learned references, he explores with an extraordinary degree of insight the interplay of character and political action. While drawing chiefly on historical sources, he brings to biography a natural storyteller's ear for a good anecdote."--Jacket.
Contents: Cato the Elder -- Aemilius Paullus -- Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus -- Marius -- Sulla -- Pompey -- Caesar -- Antony.
Notes: 'Index of literary and historical sources cited by Plutarch': p. [535]-536 ; 'Index of proper names': p. [537]-551.
Subject headings (LCSH): Generals--Rome--Biography.; Rome--Biography; Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C.; Statesmen--Rome--Biography.