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The Makers of Rome

by Plutarch Book 25 in the Penguin Classics: Ancient World series.

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This Plutarch selection presents Roman lives as sources for the character, ambitions and public consequences of leading figures in the Republic. The book is useful for readers following the people behind Roman political crisis, military command and moral exempla, though each life is shaped as biography rather than a full chronological history.

Historical Periods

Late Roman Republic133–27 BCE Roman Biography and Moral Exempla100 BCE–150 CE

Genres

Classical Literature

Historical people

Julius Caesar101 BCE–45 BCE Cicero107 BCE–44 BCE Sullac. 138–78 BCE Plutarchc. 46–after 119 CE Pompey106–48 BCE Cato the Younger95–46 BCE

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