The Age of Caesar
Five Roman Lives
Seiten
2018
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-35552-9 (ISBN)
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-35552-9 (ISBN)
An outstanding new edition of Plutarch, the inventor of biography, focused on five lives that remade the Roman world.
Major figures in the civil wars that ended the Roman Republic, the names Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus and Antony haunt us with questions of character and authority. Plutarch’s rich, vivid profiles show character-shaping history through grand scale events and intimate details. The creator and master of the biographical form, Plutarch locates character in small gestures such as Brutus’s punctilious use of money or Caesar’s plainspoken discourse. In this reader’s edition, the translation lends a straightforward clarity to the prose and the notes identify people, places and events in the text. The substantial introduction and foreword explore Plutarch as an historical figure and the history of the Republic’s fall.
Major figures in the civil wars that ended the Roman Republic, the names Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus and Antony haunt us with questions of character and authority. Plutarch’s rich, vivid profiles show character-shaping history through grand scale events and intimate details. The creator and master of the biographical form, Plutarch locates character in small gestures such as Brutus’s punctilious use of money or Caesar’s plainspoken discourse. In this reader’s edition, the translation lends a straightforward clarity to the prose and the notes identify people, places and events in the text. The substantial introduction and foreword explore Plutarch as an historical figure and the history of the Republic’s fall.
James Romm is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College. He is the author of Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece’s Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece, among other books. His reviews and essays appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Review of Books. He lives in the Hudson Valley of New York State. Pamela Mensch is the translator of Herodotus and Arrian, and she lives in New York City. Mary Beard is the author of the best-selling The Fires of Vesuvius and the National Book Critics Circle Award–nominated Confronting the Classics and SPQR. A popular blogger and television personality, Beard is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. She lives in England.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.01.2018 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | Pamela Mensch |
| Vorwort | Mary Beard |
| Zusatzinfo | 5 maps |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 211 mm |
| Gewicht | 327 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton | |
| Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-393-35552-7 / 0393355527 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-393-35552-9 / 9780393355529 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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