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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

12 reviews
Plutarch

Modern Library, 1992

For the ages' tooth . . .
Twain's pejorative definition of `classic' need not apply. I define classic as that (text) which speaks to the heart over an extended duration - perhaps for several generations, as in `classic rock', or several millennia, as in Plutarch's "Lives". I probably never would have read Plutarch, were it not for a glorious discovery of Montaigne in mid-life. Having acquired enough distaste for the ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plutarch Lives, VII, Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar (Loeb Classical Library)

5 reviews
Plutarch

Loeb Classical Library, 1919

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 ...

LIVES OF THE NOBLE GREEKS AND ROMANS - KINDLE EDITION [ENG]

Classics-Unbound, 2008

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving Parallel Lives (in Greek: Bioi parallèloi), as they are more properly and commonly known, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single ...

Plutarch Lives, V: Agesilaus and Pompey. Pelopidas and Marcellus (Loeb Classical Library®)
Plutarch

Loeb Classical Library, 1917

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 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's Lives: Selected and Edited
John S. White

Biblo & Tannen Booksellers & Publishers, 1995

Plutarch's Lives: Exploring Virtue and Vice
Tim Duff

Oxford University Press, USA, 2002

This book lucidly explains how the Parallel Lives of Plutarch (c. AD 45-120) are more than mere `sources' for history. The Lives offer us a unique insight into the reception of Classical Greece and Republican Rome in the Greek world of the second century AD. They also explore and challenge issues of psychology, education, morality, and cultural identity.

Plutarchs Lives, Vol. 2
Plutarch

Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., 2008

One of the worlds most influential literary works, Plutarchs Lives forms a brilliant social history of the ancient world by comparing the parallel lives of notorious Greeks and Romans. Volume II compares Alexander and Caesar, Demosthenes and Cicero, and Dion and Marcus Brutus, among others.

The Greek Heroes

LeClue22 [Kindle], 2008

The stories include; the Adventures of Perseus and how he slew the Gorgon Medusa, Jason and the Argonauts and the Adventures of Theseus including how he Slew the the bull headed Minotaur

Selected Lives (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)

1 review
Plutarch, Thomas North, ...

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999

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 and Roman Lives (Giant Thrifts)
Plutarch

Dover Publications, 2005

Plutarch's biographies of Solon, Pericles, Alexander the Great, Caesar, Cicero, and others form a brilliant social history of the ancient world. This rich collection reveals the character and personalities of Greece and Rome's most influential figures. It is Plutarch's most enduring work and is an exceptional choice for biography lovers and readers of ancient history.

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