Lives of the Noble Romans Author:Plutarch Red binding/cover with gold title/scrolls with a ribbon book marker. — Chapter headings: Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Fabius, Marcellus, Marcus Cato, Crassus, Caesar, Pompey, Cicero, Antony. — The 10 lives in this book provide us with the image of Rome from its mythic prehistory, thru the days of the austerity & republican strength, to the height of ... more »its conquests & the collapse under the very weight & power of the state, of the forms & freedoms of republican government.« less