Kathryn Tempest is senior lecturer in Latin literature and Roman history, University of Roehampton, and author of Cicero: Politics and Persuasion in Ancient Rome. She lives in Surrey, UK.
“Tempest writes as clearly as she thinks. . . A valuable
contribution to the field, which deserves to be widely read.”—Prof.
Matthew Leigh, History Today
“Kathryn Tempest leads us into the complexities and contradictions
in the life and legacy of Brutus, a figure who has provoked
controversy through the ages.”—James Romm, TLS
Winner of the Outstanding Academic Title for 2018 award sponsored
by Choice
“A beautifully written and thought-provoking book.”—Christopher
Pelling, author of Plutarch and History
“Engagingly written and admirably researched, Tempest’s new
biography gets us closer than we have ever been to recovering the
authentic Marcus Brutus. Tempest supplies new perspectives on
evidence we believed we already knew well and, while remaining far
from hagiography, makes clear the man’s remarkable historical
importance.” — W. Jeffrey Tatum, author of Always I am
Caesar
"Kathryn Tempest has brought us closer to one of the most important
and yet enigmatic characters in ancient history and offers a
portrait of a 'noble conspirator' at a time of great unrest in
Rome's history: capable, ambitious, in many ways honourable, and
certainly deserving of emerging from Caesar's shadow. This is
biography as it should be written."—Michael Scott, author
of Ancient Worlds: An Epic History of East and West
“Brutus the tyrannicide has been romanticised, idealised and
demonised for two thousand years. Tempest deftly disentangles ‘the
noblest Roman of them all’ from all these fictions and reveals the
Brutus his own contemporaries knew and puzzled over. Essential
reading.”—Greg Woolf, author of Rome: An Empire’s Story
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