The Fall of the Roman Republic Six Lives

by Plutarch; Warner, Rex; Seager, Robin; Seager, Robin

• ISBN13: 9780140449341
• ISBN10: 0140449345
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780140440843
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-25
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Summary

Rome’s famed historian illuminates the twilight of the old Roman Republic from 157 to 43 BC in succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesmen of the classical period.

Author Biography

Plutarch (c. 50-ûc. 120 AD), dramatist, natural scientist, and philosopher, is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era.

Robin Seager is a reader in classics and ancient history at the University of Liverpool.

Rex Warner-'s translations for Penguin Classics include works by Xenophon and Thucydides.

Table of Contents

Marius	p. 3
Sulla : comparison of Lysander and Sulla	p. 105
Crassus : comparison of Nicias and Crassus	p. 155
Pompey : comparison of Agesilaus and Pompey	p. 249
Caesar	p. 254
Cicero : comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero	p. 374
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