![]() Frequently, a small thing-a phrase or a flash of wit-gives more insight into a man’s character than battles where tens of thousands die, or vast arrays of troops, or sieges of cities.” Romm quotes Plutarch himself (from his life of Alexander the Great) about the aim of his project: “For it is not histories I am writing, but lives and the most glorious deeds do not always reveal the workings of virtue or vice. Norton, The Age of Caesar, which is a selection of five Roman lives written in the first century AD by the Greek historian and philosopher Plutarch. ![]() B ard College classicist James Romm, author of memorably good books such as Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero and Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire, provides the preface for a curious and inviting new book from W.W. ![]()
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