Roman Lives

Marcus CatoSullaAemilius PaullusPompeyThe GracchiMariusJulius CaesarAnthony''I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest.''In the eight lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures and periods of classical...