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7 reviews
Plutarch

Penguin Classics, 2005

A Timeless Classic By One Of The Best Biographers In History
Plutarch in his "Lives Of The Noble Grecians And Romans" written around 100 C.E., sheds new light on Greek and Roman history from their Bronze Age beginnings, shrouded in myth, down through Alexander and late Republican Rome. Plutarch is the lens that we use today to view the Greco-Roman past; his work has shaped our perceptions of that world for 2,000 years. Plutarch writes of the rise of ...

Plutarch: Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans (Modern Library Series, Vol. 1)

11 reviews
Plutarch

Modern Library, 1992

educator of the western world
After the Turks had conquered Constantinople, refuges brought manuscripts of Plutarch to Italy. It was the right time. Secular scholars and enlightened clerics took a new interest in the learning of Antiquity and the Greek language. For the first time since the fall of Rome, Homer was not just a name, but actually read in the original. And PlutarchÕs ÒLivesÓ became the handbook for the European ...

Makers of Rome: Nine Lives (Penguin Classics)

11 reviews
Plutarch

Penguin Classics, 1965

A Timeless Classic By One Of The Best Biographers In History
Plutarch in his "Lives Of The Noble Grecians And Romans" written around 100 C.E., sheds new light on Greek and Roman history from their Bronze Age beginnings, shrouded in myth, down through Alexander and late Republican Rome. Plutarch is the lens that we use today to view the Greco-Roman past; his work has shaped our perceptions of that world for 2,000 years. Plutarch writes of the rise of ...

Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives (Oxford World's Classics)

3 reviews
Plutarch

Oxford University Press, USA, 2000

please read this book
This is an excellent translation of a timeless classic. The notes are well done and thorough and the introduction is very helpful whether you are a scholarly type or an interested lay reader. The only qualm I have is that it was often hard to know when the action of each life took place. This is a minor glich, however, and does not hinder from the overall enjoyment of the work. The lives ...

Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics)

6 reviews
Plutarch

Modern Library, 2001

A Timeless Classic By One Of The Best Biographers In History
Plutarch in his "Lives Of The Noble Grecians And Romans" written around 100 C.E., sheds new light on Greek and Roman history from their Bronze Age beginnings, shrouded in myth, down through Alexander and late Republican Rome. Plutarch is the lens that we use today to view the Greco-Roman past; his work has shaped our perceptions of that world for 2,000 years. Plutarch writes of the rise of ...

The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives

6 reviews
Plutarch, Ian Scott-Kilvert

Penguin Classics, 1960

Plutarch on Athens
While categorized as more of a biographer than a historian, Plutarch is nevertheless one of the most often-cited scholars of antiquity. In Plutarch we gaze at history through the lens of the great avatars of history. This is actually preferable in many ways to Plutarch's original organization. As Plutarch's method was to teach on ethics via the lives of great men, he would write parallel lives ...

The Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives (Penguin Classics)

11 reviews
Plutarch

Penguin Classics, 2006

A Timeless Classic By One Of The Best Biographers In History
Plutarch in his "Lives Of The Noble Grecians And Romans" written around 100 C.E., sheds new light on Greek and Roman history from their Bronze Age beginnings, shrouded in myth, down through Alexander and late Republican Rome. Plutarch is the lens that we use today to view the Greco-Roman past; his work has shaped our perceptions of that world for 2,000 years. Plutarch writes of the rise of ...

Greek Lives

4 reviews
Plutarch

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

Easy and great fun to read!
This fresh translation of Plutarch makes these wonderful timeless stories easy to enter. In a world of insipid shallow middle managers, multinational corporate slaves, and boring billionaire silicon valley geeks these stories are a wonderful relief! I was delighted to learn that Pericles was in love with a brilliant courtesan named Aspasia who influenced him as well as others, including ...

Alexander The Great: Selections From Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, And Quintus Curtius

3 reviews
Arrian, Diodorus Siculus, ...

Hackett Publishing Company, 2005

The "GREATEST" OF THE "GREAT"
Alexander the Great, was born on or around July 20, 356 B.C.E., and is my favorite personality to read about in history. To me he is the whole package general, statesman, conqueror, and philosopher. The smartest man who ever lived, Aristotle, tutored him. Alexander conquered more of the known world than any other figure in history, accomplishing all this before he dies at the ripe old age of 33. ...

Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (Modern Library Classics)

6 reviews
Plutarch

Modern Library, 2001

essential reference
I have now plowed through the second and final volume of this series, and though my energy began to flag, I still think this is one of the great classics of all time. Though not exactly chronological, the stories in this volume tend to occur later than in the first volume and are often longer, which is understandable given that Julius Caesar and Alex the Great are covered in this volume. THe ...

Essays (Penguin Classics)

5 reviews
Plutarch

Penguin Classics, 1993

Applied Morals and Eclecticism
This is a fabulous collection of essays and a good introduction into Plutarch's writing and method of reasoning. While Plutarch was a member of the academy in Athens which had been founded by Plato several centuries had passed since Plato had left the scene. Plutarch takes knowledge from wherever he can find it -- whether it be from Homer or Pindar, Plato or Democritus, the Stoics, or from his ...

Parallel Lives, XI: Aratus. Artaxerxes. Galba. Otho. General Index (Loeb Classical Library®)
Plutarch

Loeb Classical Library, 1926

Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45-120 CE , was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daughter and four sons. He appears as a man of kindly character and independent thought, studious and learned. Plutarch wrote on many subjects. ...

The Life of Alexander the Great (Modern Library Classics)

1 review
Plutarch

Modern Library, 2004

A Very Good Read
I was impressed with this translation of Plutarch's Life of Alexander the Great. The prose was very clear and readable, and I finished the book very quickly. You shouldn't expect a detailed treatment of military or historical topics; the book is less than 100 pages in length, and such was not Plutarch's object anyway. Plutarch's Lives are really discussions of morality and character as ...

Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays

B&R Samizdat Express, 2008

From the Preface: "Plutarch, who was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia, probably about A.D. 50, and was a contemporary of Tacitus and Pliny, has written two works still extant, the well-known _Lives_, and the less-known _Moralia_. The _Lives_ have often been translated, and have always been a popular work. Great indeed was their power at the period of the French Revolution. The _Moralia_, on the other hand, consisting of various Essays on various ...

The Creation of Sparta - Life of King Lykurgus the Law Giver

LeClue22, 2008

Before Lycurgus came to power Sparta was just another Greek City State with many of the same traditional art and trappings of other Greek States. Lycurgus the legendary Lawgiver out law gold and silver coin money and replaced it with heavy iron bars to prevent bribery. He transformed the Spartan state into a militaristic power that would one day rule Greece. Boys from the age of seven started training as soldiers and women took on ...

Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Plutarch's Lives

B&R Samizdat Express, 2008

The complete multi-volume Lives, in a single file. The Clough translation.

Plutarch lives Pericles and Fabius Maximus. Nicias and Crassus (Loeb Classical LibraryÂ®)

2 reviews
Plutarch

Loeb Classical Library, 1916

Collection of Plutarch's Lives
This book is one of an 11 volume collection of PLutarch's Lives. In the Parallel Lives Plutarch writes about influential men of the ancient world and compares and contrasts them. Some include Theseus and Remulus, Pericles and Fabius Maximus, and Themistocles and Camillus. The books are very intriguing and each pair of lives is about 110 pages, double that number if the original Greek writing ...

The Lives of the Great Greeks & Romans

LeClue, 2008

The lives of the great founders of Rome and Greece as recorded by the Plutarch the famous Greek history from 100 AD. Plutarch wrote a collection of short biographies on the leaders of Greece and Rome that shaped the world of his day. Plutarch also wrote comparisons between the Geek founder Thesus and the Roman founder Romulus. And Between the great conquers of the ancient world Alexander and Caesar.

Plutarch: Moralia, Volume V, Isis and Osiris. The E at Delphi. The Oracles at Delphi No Longer Given in ...

1 review
Plutarch

Loeb Classical Library, 1936

Good source of information on the cults of Isis and Osiris
This volume of Plutarch's Moralia describes the legend and cult of Isis and Osiris, as referred to by my book Vampires or Gods? It is a very interesting look at a major cult during the late imperial period of the Roman Empire. - William Meyers

The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives (Penguin Classics, L286)

8 reviews
Plutarch

Penguin Classics, 1973

Some "Lively" Greek Biogs By Plutarch
Plutarch was a Greek scholar living in the Roman Empire. He was not a historian, per se, but rather a biographer who used the lives of famous Greeks and Romans to illustrate strengths and weaknesses of character, how they impacted events, and how events impacted them. He wrote his biographies in pairs, matching a Greek and Roman whose lives, in his view, exemplified common traits or themes. His ...

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