Rome in Crisis
Tiberius Gracchus - Gaius Gracchus Sertorius - Lucullus Younger Cato - Brutus - Antony Galba - Otho
$44.98
- Paperback
752 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2010
Summary
Bringing together nine biographies from Plutarch’s Parallel Lives series, this edition examines the lives of major figures in Roman history, from Lucullus (118-57 BC), an aristocratic politician and conqueror of Eastern kingdoms, to Otho (32-69 AD), a reckless young noble who consorted with the tyrannical, debauched emperor Nero before briefly becoming a dignified and gracious emperor himself.
Ian Scott-Kilvert’s and Christopher Pelling’s translations are accompanied by a new introduc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140449167 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140449167 |
| Author: | Plutarch, Christopher Pelling, Ian Scott-Kilvert |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 752 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2010 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 35mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Plutarch
Plutarch
(c. 50 - c. 120 AD)
Plutarch was a Greek writer and thinker. He received the best possible education in rhetoric and philosophy, and travelled to Asia Minor and Egypt. Later, a series of visits to Rome and Italy contributed to his fame, and it was said that he had received official recognition by the emperors Trajan and Hadrian. His voluminous surviving writings are broadly divided into the ‘moral’ works and the Lives of outstanding Greek and Roman leaders.
Ian Scott-Kilvert
Ian Scott-Kilvert was Director of English Literature at the British Council and Editor of Writers and Their Works. For Penguin Classics, he translated Plutarch’s Makers of Rome, The Rise and Fall of Athens - Nine Greek Lives, and The Age of Alexander, as well as Cassius Dio’s The Roman History. He died in 1989.
Christopher Pelling
Christopher Pelling is Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University. He published a commentary on Plutarch’s Life of Antony in 1988. Most of his articles on Plutarch are collected in his Plutarch and History (2002).
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