Rob Goodman > Quotes

“They included homegrown terrorism, a debt crisis, the management of multiple foreign wars, the fraying of conventional social bonds and mores, and a yawning gap between rich and poor.”
― Rob Goodman, Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar

“In this, and in all of his Roman and Greek Lives, Plutarch did not practice what we would recognize as straight history, but rather moral education, a kind of didactic drama.”
― Rob Goodman, Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar

“If you give citizenship to the Latins,” said one nativist consul, one of two co-heads of the Roman state, “I suppose that you think that you will continue as now to find somewhere to stand to listen to speeches and attend games and public festivals?”
― Rob Goodman, Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar