James Romm
James Romm is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College. He is the author of Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece’s Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece, among other books. His reviews and essays appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Review of Books. He lives in the Hudson Valley of New York State.
James Romm
James Romm is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College. He is the author of Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece’s Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece, among other books. His reviews and essays appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Review of Books. He lives in the Hudson Valley of New York State.
Books by James Romm

Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece
James Romm
Hardback, 2025
A rare biographical portrait of the philosopher Plato, showing how the ideas in his masterwork, Republic, were tested amidst a bloody civil war
Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece
James Romm
E Book
A rare biographical portrait of the philosopher Plato, showing how the ideas in his masterwork, Republic, were tested amidst a bloody civil war
The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives
Plutarch, James Romm, Pamela Mensch, Mary Beard
Hardback, 2017
An outstanding new edition of Plutarch, the inventor of biography, focused on five lives that remade the Roman world.
The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives
Plutarch, James Romm, Pamela Mensch, Mary Beard
Paperback, 2018
An outstanding new edition of Plutarch, the inventor of biography, focused on five lives that remade the Roman world.
The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives
Plutarch, James Romm, Pamela Mensch, Mary Beard
E Book, 2017
An outstanding new edition of Plutarch, the inventor of biography, focused on five lives that remade the Roman world.



