Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1
the dryden translation
$42.34
- Paperback
816 pages
- Release Date
10 April 2001
Summary
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,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375756764 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375756760 |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics (Paperback) |
| Author: | Plutarch |
| Publisher: | Modern Library |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 816 |
| Release Date: | 10 April 2001 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 29mm |
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About the Introducer VICTOR DAVIS HANSON has written extensively on both ancient Greek and military history; his ?fteen books include The Western Way of War and Between War and Peace. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno.
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