Roman lives
Subtitle: a selection of eight Roman lives
By: Plutarch ; translated by Robin Waterfield ; with introductions and notes by Philip A. Stadter.
Contributors: Stadter, Philip A.; Waterfield, Robin, 1952-
Series: Oxford world's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng; grc
Number of pages: 551
Subjects: Statesmen -- Rome -- Biography; Generals -- Rome -- Biography; Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxx]-xxxii) and index.
Table of contents: title: Cato the Elder; title: Aemilius Paullus; title: Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus; title: Marius; title: Sulla; title: Pompey; title: Caesar; title: Antony.