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Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780852295311
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Great Books of the Western World, V.13: Plutarch written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mortimer Adler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780852295311
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Great Books of the Western World: Vol. 13 Plutarch written by Mortimer Adler and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9780852295311
Total Pages : 897 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Great Books of the Western World written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 1588363473
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book The Life of Alexander the Great written by Plutarch and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2004-04-13 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father’s empire through-out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander’s prediction that the new king “should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.” The Life of Alexander the Great is one of the first surviving attempts to memorialize the achievements of this legendary king, remembered today as the greatest military genius of all time. This exclusive Modern Library edition, excerpted from Plutarch’s Lives, is a riveting tale of honor, power, scandal, and bravery written by the most eminent biographer of the ancient world.
Author : Robert Lamberton
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300088113
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Plutarch written by Robert Lamberton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written around the year 100, Plutarch's Lives have shaped perceptions of the accomplishments of the ancient Greeks and Romans for nearly two thousand years. This engaging and stimulating book introduces both general readers and students to Plutarch's own life and work. Robert Lamberton sketches the cultural context in which Plutarch worked--Greece under Roman rule--and discusses his family relationships, background, education, and political career. There are two sides to Plutarch: the most widely read source on Greek and Roman history and the educator whose philosophical and pedagogical concerns are preserved in the vast collection of essays and dialogues known as the Moralia. Lamberton analyzes these neglected writings, arguing that we must look here for Plutarch's deepest commitment as a writer and for the heart of his accomplishment. Lamberton also explores the connection between biography and historiography and shows how Plutarch's parallel biographies served the continuing process of cultural accommodation between Greeks and Romans in the Roman Empire. He concludes by discussing Plutarch's influence and reputation through the ages.
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191605085
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Roman Lives written by Plutarch and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-10-07 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcus Cato Sulla Aemilius Paullus Pompey The Gracchi Marius Julius Caesar Anthony 'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest.' In the eight lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures and periods of classical Rome. He portrays virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, but his purpose is also implicitly to educate and warn those in his own day who wielded power. In prose that is rich, elegant and sprinkled with learned references, he explores with an extraordinary degree of insight the interplay of character and political action. While drawing chiefly on historical sources, he brings to biography a natural story-teller's ear for a good anecdote. Throughout the ages Plutarch's Lives have been valued for their historical value and their charm. This new translation will introduce new generations to his urbane erudition. The most comprehensive selection available, it is accompanied by a lucid introduction, explanatory notes, bibliographies, maps and indexes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781566195997
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (959 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Historians written by Michael Grant and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grant offers a study of the primary historians of Greece and Rome, discussing the works and methods of the founders of the historical discipline. These philosophers studied history as a moral discipline that bears meaningfully not only on the past but on future human conduct.
Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1593392214
Total Pages : 5323 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Gateway to the Great Books written by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc and published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.. This book was released on 1990-10-01 with total page 5323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gateway to the Great Books are great writings which selections include short stories, plays, essays, scientific papers, speeches, and letters. Each selection represents a primary, original, and fundamental contribution to ones understanding of the universe and themselves. There are over 135 Authors, 225 Selections and 95 original illustrations. Selections include works from Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S Eliot, Mark Twain and more. This set will help introduce oneself to good literature and the Great Books of the Western World.
Author : Mortimer Adler
Publisher : Open Court
ISBN 13 : 081269693X
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)
Download or read book How to Think About the Great Ideas written by Mortimer Adler and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time magazine called Mortimer J. Adler a "philosopher for everyman." In this guide to considering the big questions, Adler addresses the topics all men and women ponder in the course of life, such as "What is love?", "How do we decide the right thing to do?", and, "What does it mean to be good?" Drawing on his extensive knowledge of Western literature, history, and philosophy, the author considers what is meant by democracy, law, emotion, language, truth, and other abstract concepts in light of more than two millennia of Western civilization and discourse. Adler's essays offer a remarkable and contemplative distillation of the Great Ideas of Western Thought.
Author : Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439104891
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book How to Speak How to Listen written by Mortimer J. Adler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the bestselling How to Read a Book comes a comprehensive and practical guide for learning how to speak and listen more effectively. With over half a million copies in print of his “living classic” How to Read a Book in print, intellectual, philosopher, and academic Mortimer J. Adler set out to write an accompanying volume on speaking and listening, offering the impressive depth of knowledge and accessible panache that distinguished his first book. In How to Speak How to Listen, Adler explains the fundamental principles of communicating through speech, with sections on such specialized presentations as the sales talk, the lecture, and question-and-answer sessions and advice on effective listening and learning by discussion.
Author : Robert Maynard Hutchins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780852294765
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (947 download)
Download or read book The Great Conversation written by Robert Maynard Hutchins and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the Great Books of the Western World series.
Author : Robert Maynard Hutchins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Great Books of the Western World 13. Virgil The Poems of Virgil written by Robert Maynard Hutchins and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Engage Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781774760482
Total Pages : 1200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Plutarch's Lives, The Complete 48 Biographies (Deluxe Library Binding) written by Plutarch and published by Engage Classics. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch's Lives is a series of 48 biographies of famous men. The work includes 23 pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman of similar destiny, such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar.
Author : Matt Burriesci
Publisher : Cleis Press
ISBN 13 : 1632280175
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Dead White Guys written by Matt Burriesci and published by Cleis Press. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his daughter was born prematurely in 2010, Burriesci set out to write a book for her 18th birthday. In short, honest, and simple letters, Burriesci teaches his daughter about 32 great books, from Plato to Karl Marx, and how their lessons have applied to his life. As someone who has spent a long and successful career advocating for great literature, Burriesci defends the titles in this series of tender and candid letters, rich in personal experience and full of humor. Dead White Guys is also a timely defense of the great books, arriving in the middle of a national debate about the fate of these books in high schools and universities around the country. Burriesci shows how the great books can enrich our lives as individuals, as citizens, and in our careers.
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141970383
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Age of Alexander written by Plutarch and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch's parallel biographies of the great men in Greek and Roman history are cornerstones of European literature, drawn on by writers and statesmen since the Renaissance, most notably by Shakespeare. This selection provides intimate glimpses into the lives of these men, depicting, as he put it, 'those actions which illuminate the workings of the soul'. We learn why the mild Artaxerxes forced the killer of his usurping brother to undergo the horrific 'death of two boats'; why the noble Dion repeatedly risked his life for the ungrateful mobs of Syracuse; why Demosthenes delivered a funeral oration for the soldiers he had deserted in battle; and why Alexander, the most enigmatic of tyrants, self-destructed after conquering half the world.
Author : Mortimer Jerome Adler
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 9780684859217
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (592 download)
Download or read book The Great Ideas written by Mortimer Jerome Adler and published by Scribner. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published: New York : Macmillan, 1992.
Author : Luciano Canfora
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520072558
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (725 download)
Download or read book The Vanished Library written by Luciano Canfora and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-08-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreates the world of ancient Egypt, describes how the Library of Alexandria was created, and speculates on its destruction.
