Fall of the Roman Republic
Six Lives
$26.11
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
10 May 2006
Summary
This revised edition features a new introduction by Robin Seager, putting the lives in the context of Plutarch’s biography and literary career, discussing and comparing the individual lives, and analysing Plutarch’s approach to his subject matter.
Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesman of the classical period. Taken from t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140449341 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140449345 |
| Author: | Plutarch, Robin Seager, Rex Warner |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 10 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 338g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Plutarch
Plutarch (c.50-c.120 AD) was a writer and thinker born into a wealthy, established family of Chaeronea in central Greece. His voluminous surviving writings are broadly divided into the ‘moral’ works and the Parallel Lives of outstanding Greek and Roman leaders. The former (Moralia) are a mixture of rhetorical and antiquarian pieces, together with technical and moral philosophy (sometimes in dialogue form). The Lives have been influential from the Renaissance onwards.
Robin Seager is a Reader in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Liverpool and the author of a biography of Pompey.
Rex Warner (translator) translated widely from Latin and Greek including, for Penguin, Xenophon, Thucydides and Plutarch.
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