Fall of the Roman Republic

Plutarch, as Rex Warner observes in introducing his modern translation of six of the Lives, was the last of the Greek classical historians and the first of modern biographers. Looking back from the turn of the first century A.D. he records, simply and dramatically, in the lives of Marious 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 Empire. This volume forms a companion to the nine Greek lives of The Rice and Fall of Athens in the Penguin Classics.