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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2

By Plutarch
Introduction by James Atlas
Edited by Arthur Hugh Clough
Translated by John Dryden

By Plutarch
Introduction by James Atlas
Edited by Arthur Hugh Clough
Translated by John Dryden

By Plutarch
Introduction by Tony Podlecki
Edited by Arthur Hugh Clough

By Plutarch
Introduction by Tony Podlecki
Edited by Arthur Hugh Clough

By Plutarch

By Plutarch

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    About Plutarch’s Lives, Volume 2

    Plutarch’s Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus and Theseus, Numa and Lycurgus, Fabius and Pericles, and many more powerful figures of ancient Greece and Rome.

    The present translation, originally published in 1683 in conjunction with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in 1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes and preface are also included in this edition.

    About Plutarch’s Lives, Volume 2

    Plutarch’s Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus and Theseus, Numa and Lycurgus, Fabius and Pericles, and many more powerful figures of ancient Greece and Rome.

    The present translation, originally published in 1683 in conjunction with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in 1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes and preface are also included in this edition.

    About Plutarch’s Lives, Volume 2

    Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., form a brilliant social history of the ancient world. They were originally presented in a series of books that gave an account of one Greek and one Roman life, followed by a comparison of the two: Theseus and Romulus, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demosthenes and Cicero, Demetrius and Antony. Plutarch was interested in the personalities of his subjects and on the way their characters molded their actions, leading them to tragedy or victory. He was a moralist of the highest order. ‘It was for the sake of others that I first commenced writing biographies’ he says, ‘but I find myself proceeding and attaching myself to it for my own; the virtues of these great men serving me as a sort of looking-glass, in which I may see how to adjust and adorn my own life’ Plutarch was a man of immense erudition who had traveled widely throughout the Roman Empire, and the Lives are richly anecdotal and full of detail. They were the principal source of Shakespeare’s Roman plays.

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    About Plutarch

    Plutarch (c.50-c.120 AD) was a writer and thinker born into a wealthy, established family of Chaeronea in central Greece. He received the best possible education in rhetoric and philosophy, and traveled to Asia Minor and Egypt. Later, a series of… More about Plutarch

    About Plutarch

    Plutarch (c.50-c.120 AD) was a writer and thinker born into a wealthy, established family of Chaeronea in central Greece. He received the best possible education in rhetoric and philosophy, and traveled to Asia Minor and Egypt. Later, a series of… More about Plutarch

    About Plutarch

    Plutarch (c.50-c.120 AD) was a writer and thinker born into a wealthy, established family of Chaeronea in central Greece. He received the best possible education in rhetoric and philosophy, and traveled to Asia Minor and Egypt. Later, a series of… More about Plutarch

    Product Details

    Category: Ancient World History | Nonfiction Classics | Philosophy

    Paperback | $20.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Apr 10, 2001 | 752 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375756771

    Category: Ancient World History | Philosophy

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Bantam
    Nov 02, 2011 | 752 Pages | ISBN 9780553897357

    Category: Ancient World History | Nonfiction Classics | Philosophy

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Nov 01, 2000 | 736 Pages | ISBN 9780679641759
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