037 Stabby Stabby: Plutarch’s Life of Julius Caesar (100s AD)

2025-03-28

We're traveling back in time to the inspiration for Shakespeare's Roman plays - Plutarch! Plutarch wrote compact, anecdote-filled, politically-astute biographies of the great Greeks and Romans, and who greater than Julius Caesar? Would Plutarch's tale of the rise and fall of Julius Caesar be worth reading even if Shakespeare never based his Julius Caesar on it? Join us to find out! Make sure to subscribe and share this podcast! Comments and questions can be sent to...

We're traveling back in time to the inspiration for Shakespeare's Roman plays - Plutarch!

Plutarch wrote compact, anecdote-filled, politically-astute biographies of the great Greeks and Romans, and who greater than Julius Caesar? Would Plutarch's tale of the rise and fall of Julius Caesar be worth reading even if Shakespeare never based his Julius Caesar on it? Join us to find out!

Make sure to subscribe and share this podcast! Comments and questions can be sent to shakespeare.pals@gmail.com

Sources:

Plutarch (trans. Robin Waterfield), Roman Lives (Oxford University Press)

Plutarch (trans. Bernadotte Perrin), Caesar (Perseus Digital Library)

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