Description: 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. James Atlas is the author of Bellow: A Biography and is the general editor of the Penguin Lives series. He lives in New York City.
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EAN: 9780375756764
UPC: 9780375756764
ISBN: 9780375756764
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Book Title: Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 : the Dryden Translation
Number of Pages: 816 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Topic: Ancient / General, Cultural Heritage, Ancient / Greece, Historical
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 16.4 Oz
Author: Plutarch
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Book Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
