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Author : John Cournos
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Total Pages : 492 pages
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Download or read book A Modern Plutarch written by John Cournos and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Lloyd George
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468314114
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book A Modern Plutarch written by Robert Lloyd George and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the Ancient Greek biographer, this volume offers comparative assessments of important leaders from American and British history. One of the most significant and enduring texts of Ancient Greece is Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans. In it, the “Father of Biography” paired off the most notable and influential figures of the classical world, placing their lives and legacies next to each other, allowing the comparisons and juxtapositions to reveal new truths about these famous men. He compared Demosthenes with Cicero, Alexander the Great with Julius Caesar; the result was an intellectual masterpiece still referred to by historians today. In A Modern Plutarch, Robert Lloyd George applies this model of biography to the most influential statesmen and stateswomen of American and British history. Lloyd George compares figures such as Edmund Burke, a prophet of modern conservatism, and Thomas Paine, a champion for the common man. He juxtaposes Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln, two of the greatest wartime leaders of the past 200 years, and Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, the first divisive, the latter popular. In doing so, he draws parallels between their lives and philosophies, while revealing the traits that made them unique. An essential primer on leadership and an inspiring account of exceptional lives, A Modern Plutarch offers remarkable insight into some of the greatest minds of the modern era.
Author : John Cournos
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Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book A Modern Plutarch written by John Cournos and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Cournos
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Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book A Modern Plutarch written by John Cournos and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Cournos
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Download or read book A Modern Plutarch written by John Cournos and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen T. Newmyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135130515
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Animals, Rights and Reason in Plutarch and Modern Ethics written by Stephen T. Newmyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume explores Plutarch's unique survival in the argument that animals are rational and sentient, and that we, as humans, must take notice of their interests. Exploring Plutarch's three animal-related treatises, as well as passages from his ethical treatises, Stephen Newmyer examines arguments that, strikingly, foreshadow those found in the works of such prominent animal rights philosophers as Peter Singer and Tom Regan. Unique in viewing Plutarch’s opinions not only in the context of ancient philosophical and ethical through, but also in its place in the history of animal rights speculation, Animals Rights and Reasons points out how remarkably Plutarch differs from such anti-animal thinkers as the Stoics. Classicists, philosophers, animal-welfare students and interested readers will all find this book an invaluable and informative addition to their reading.
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.
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Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Modern Plutarch; Or, Universal Biography: Including Authentic Memoirs of Distinguished Public Characters, of All Nations, Living and Recently Deceased ... Under the Immediate Direction of Several Literary Gentlemen written by and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Duff
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199252749
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (527 download)
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.
Author : John Cournos
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book A Modern Plutarch written by John Cournos and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Plutarch
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ISBN 13 : 9780999146682
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (466 download)
Download or read book The Lawgivers written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 in a series of translations of Plutarch's Parallel Live from the translators of Marcus Aurelius "Meditations."
Author : John Cournos
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Download or read book A Modern Plutarch written by John Cournos and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Modern Plutarch ; Or, Universal Biography: Including Authentic Memoirs of Distinguished Public Characters, of All Nations, Living and Recently Deceased ... Under the Immediate Direction of Several Literary Gentlemen written by and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781505387513
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (875 download)
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.
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393292835
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
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.
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Total Pages : 448 pages
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Download or read book The Modern Plutarch; Or, Universal Biography: Including Authentic Memoirs of Distinguished Public Characters, of All Nations, Living and Recently Deceased ... Under the Immediate Direction of Several Literary Gentlemen written by and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Modern Plutarch: Consisting of Select Lives, Or Authentic Memoirs of Illustrious Characters written by and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
