| Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 Contributor(s): Plutarch (Author), Clough, Arthur Hugh (Editor), Atlas, James (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0375756779 ISBN-13: 9780375756771 Publisher: Modern Library
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 2001 Annotation: Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus and Theseus, Numa and Lycurgus, Fabius and Pericles, and many more powerful figures of ancient Greece and Rome. The present translation, originally published in 1683 in conjunction with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in 1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes and preface are also included in this edition. Click for more in this series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback) |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | Ancient - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 00068388 |
| Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 1.15" H x 5.15" W x 8" L (0.95 lbs) 752 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Secular - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Features: Index, Price on Product |
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| Publisher Description: Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus and Theseus, Numa and Lycurgus, Fabius and Pericles, and many more powerful figures of ancient Greece and Rome. The present translation, originally published in 1683 in conjunction with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in 1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes and preface are also included in this edition. |
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