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Plutarch

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Author : Robert Lamberton
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300088113
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (881 download)

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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.

Two Treatises of Government

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Author : John Locke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787532783083
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Two Treatises of Government written by John Locke and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Sparta

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Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141925507
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book On Sparta written by Plutarch and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta's leaders and his recording of memorable Spartan Sayings he depicts a people who lived frugally and mastered their emotions in all aspects of life, who also disposed of unhealthy babies in a deep chasm, introduced a gruelling regime of military training for boys, and treated their serfs brutally. Rich in anecdote and detail, Plutarch's writing brings to life the personalities and achievements of Sparta with unparalleled flair and humanity.

The Complete Collection of Plutarch's Parallel Lives

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Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781505387513
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Collection of Plutarch's Parallel Lives written by Plutarch and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch, later named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, c. 46 - 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. Plutarch lived most of his life at Chaeronea, and his duties as the senior of the two priests of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi (where he was responsible for interpreting the auguries of the Pythia) apparently occupied little of his time. He led an active social and civic life while producing an extensive body of writing, much of which survived. By his writings and lectures Plutarch became a celebrity in the Roman Empire. At his country estate, guests from all over the empire congregated for serious conversation, presided over by Plutarch in his marble chair. Many of these dialogues were recorded and published, and the 78 essays and other works which have survived are now known collectively as the Moralia. Plutarch's best-known work is the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues and vices. The surviving Lives contain 23 pairs, each with one Greek Life and one Roman Life, as well as four unpaired single Lives. Some of the Lives, such as those of Heracles, Philip II of Macedon and Scipio Africanus, no longer exist; many of the remaining Lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae or have been tampered with by later writers. Extant Lives include those on Aristides, Pericles, Pompey, Julius Caesar, Cicero, Cato the Younger, Mark Antony, and Marcus Junius Brutus, all of which are included here.

Plutarch's Lives

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Author : Tim Duff
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199252749
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Lives written by Tim Duff and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Plutarch's Lives

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Author : Noreen Humble
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589233
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Lives written by Noreen Humble and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch's Parallel Lives were written to compare famous Greeks and Romans. This most obvious aspect of their parallelism is frequently ignored in the drive to mine Plutarch for historical fact. However, the eleven contributors to the present volume, who include most of the world's leading commentators on Plutarch, together bring out many ways in which Plutarch invoked aspects of parallelism. They show how pervasive and how central the whole notion was to his thinking. With new analysis of the synkriseis; with discussion of parallels within and across the Lives and in the Moralia; with an examination of why the basic parallel structure of the Lives lost its importance in the Renaissance, this volume presents fresh ideas on a neglected topic crucial to Plutarch's literary creation.

Plutarch's Lives, The Complete 48 Biographies (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

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Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Royal Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781774761229
Total Pages : 1200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Lives, The Complete 48 Biographies (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) written by Plutarch and published by Royal Classics. This book was released on 2021-01-23 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.

Plutarch's Lives

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Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Lives written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plutarch: Life of Antony

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Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521284189
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Plutarch: Life of Antony written by Plutarch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-05-26 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition will be of interest to all Greek scholars, ancient historians, and also the students of English literature since the relevant discussions require no knowledge of Greek.

The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives

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Author : Plutarch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393292835
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives written by Plutarch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Plutarch regularly shows that great leaders transcend their own purely material interests and petty, personal vanities. Noble ideals actually do matter, in government as in life." —Michael Dirda, Washington Post A brilliant new translation of five of history’s greatest lives from Plutarch, the inventor of biography. Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives still haunt us as examples of how the hunger for personal power can overwhelm collective politics, how the exaltation of the military can corrode civilian authority, and how the best intentions can lead to disastrous consequences. Plutarch renders these history-making lives as flesh-and-blood characters, often by deftly marshalling small details such as the care Brutus exercised in his use of money or the disdain Caesar felt for the lofty eloquence of Cicero. Plutarch was a Greek intellectual who lived roughly one hundred years after the age of Caesar. At home in the world of Roman power, he preferred to live in the past, among the great figures of Greek and Roman history. He intended his biographical profiles to be mirrors of character that readers could use to inspire their own values and behavior—emulating virtues and rejecting flaws. For Plutarch, character was destiny for both the individual and the republic. He was our first master of the biographical form, a major source for Shakespeare and Gibbon. This edition features a new translation by Pamela Mensch that lends a brilliant clarity to Plutarch’s prose. James Romm’s notes guide readers gracefully through the people, places, and events named in the profiles. And Romm’s preface, along with Mary Beard’s introduction, provide the perfect frame for understanding Plutarch and the momentous history he narrates.

The Life of Alexander the Great

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Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 1588363473
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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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.

Plutarch's Lives Translated from the Original Greek

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Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Lives Translated from the Original Greek written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plutarch: Demosthenes and Cicero

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Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0199699720
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Plutarch: Demosthenes and Cicero written by Plutarch and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch's Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero are an unusual pair in that they are about orators and not military men. With the translations and commentaries, Lintott provides a detailed introduction which discusses the context of the texts, the author, and the philosophy which underlies Plutarch's presentation of the two personalities.

The Makers of Rome

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Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141920459
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Makers of Rome written by Plutarch and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-04-29 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's Roman Lives, they include prominent figures who achieved fame for their pivotal roles in Roman history, such as soldierly Marcellus, eloquent Cato and cautious Fabius. Here too are vivid portraits of ambitious, hot-tempered Coriolanus; objective, principled Brutus and open-hearted Mark Anthony, who would later be brought to life by Shakespeare. In recounting the lives of these great leaders, Plutarch also explores the problems of statecraft and power and illustrates the Roman people's genius for political compromise, which led to their mastery of the ancient world.

Plutarch's Lives: Coriolanus.-Paulus Aemilius.-Timoleon.-Pelopidas.-Marcellus

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Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Lives: Coriolanus.-Paulus Aemilius.-Timoleon.-Pelopidas.-Marcellus written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plutarch's Lives: Themistocles.-Camillus.-Pericles.-Fabius.-Alcibiades

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Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Lives: Themistocles.-Camillus.-Pericles.-Fabius.-Alcibiades written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plutarch's Essays and Miscellanies

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Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Essays and Miscellanies written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: