The Rise of Rome
$39.22
- Paperback
832 pages
- Release Date
10 July 2013
Summary
A fully revised edition of Plutarch’s Lives of the great men of the ancient world, focusing on early Rome.
The biographies collected in this volume bring together Plutarch’s Lives of those great men who established the city of Rome and consolidated its supremacy, and his Comparisons with their notable Greek counterparts. Here he pairs Romulus, mythical founder of Rome, with Theseus, who brought Athens to power, and compares the admirable Numa and Lycurgus for bringing order to their c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140449754 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140449752 |
| Author: | Plutarch, Jeffrey Tatum, Christopher Pelling, Ian Scott-Kilvert |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 832 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 10 July 2013 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 35mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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“Fabulous selection with excellent notes.” –David A. Graf, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Miami
“Fabulous selection with excellent notes.”–David A. Graf, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Miami
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Plutarch
Plutarch (c. AD 45-120), the Greek philosopher, lived at the height of the Roman Empire and is author of one of the largest and collections of writings to have survived from Classical antiquity. His work is traditionally divided into two- the Moralia, which include a vast range of philosophical, scientific, moral and rhetorical works, and the Lives or biographies. Almost fifty such biographies survive, most from his collection of Parallel Lives, in which biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen are arranged in pairs.
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