What would Plato have done?
Christopher Krebs: Plutarch’s Lives, 29 June 2017
The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives
by Plutarch, translated by Pamela Mensch.
Norton, 393 pp., £28, March 2017,978 0 393 29282 4 Show More
by Plutarch, translated by Pamela Mensch.
Norton, 393 pp., £28, March 2017,
“... On inauguration day in January, the 45th president-elect of the United States arrived at the White House in a cavalcade of black cars, stepped from his armoured limousine, strode up the stairs, and greeted Barack and Michelle Obama with a handshake and air kisses. Melania Trump caught up with her husband moments later, an unwieldy Tiffany-blue gift box in her gloved hands ... ”