Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics)
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TextPublication details: Modern LibraryDescription: 784 pagesISBN: - 9780375756764
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| 937 GOLD The Roman Army at War, 100 BC- 200 AD | 937 GOLD How Rome Fell | 937 HEAT The Fall of the Roman Empire | 937 PLUT Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics) | 937 STAR The Ancient Romans | 937.02 FLOW Roman Republics | 937.05 EVER Cicero |
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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