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Fall of the Roman RepublicDescription
Plutarch has been called the last of the Greek classical historians and the first of modern biographers six of his Lives appear in this volume. Looking back from the turn of the first century AD. he records simply and dramatically, in the lives of Marius and Sulla. Crassus and Cicero, Pompey and Caesar, that long and bloody period of foreign and civil war which marked the collapse of the Roman Republic and ushered in the Roman Empire. This volume forms a companion to Plutarch's "Makers of Rome" and "The Rise and Fall of the Athens" in Penguin Classics.Context
Plutarch (born AD 46, Chaeronea, Boeotia [Greece]—died after Ad 119) was a biographer and author whose works strongly influenced the evolution of the essay, the biography, and historical writing in Europe from the 16th to the 19th century.Lexicon
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PlutarchPublication Translator
Rex WarnerPublisher
Penguin ClassicsDate Published
1954Publication Language
EnglishISBN
0140440844 9780140440843Notes
368 Pages
