Selected Essays of Plutarch
Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Ethics
ISBN :
Selected Lives
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 28,90 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781853267949
Book Description
Plutarch of Chaeronea is one of the great storytellers of antiquity, a writer whose ability to create unforgettable scenes matches the grandeur of his subject matter. The heroes of his Lives were the great men of antiquity, often greatly flawed, but with tragic depth and epic stature. Thomas North's translation, one of the most splendid works of sixteenth-century English prose, presents a vigorous and passionate version of the Lives whose qualities so attracted Shakespeare that he used North as his major source for Julius Caesar, Coriolanus and Antony & Cleopatra. This collection includes all the Lives which Shakespeare used and a selection of others which aim to show the variety and range of Plutarch's writing.
Selected Essays of Plutarch
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 24,8 MB
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368919458
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Selected Essays of Plutarch; In Two Volumes
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387085168
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Essays
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 45,99 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0140445641
Book Description
Selections from one of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world Plutarch used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb selection from his writings, he offers personal insights into moral subjects that include the virtue of listening, the danger of flattery and the avoidance of anger, alongside more speculative essays on themes as diverse as God's slowness to punish man, the use of reason by supposedly "irrational" animals and the death of his own daughter. Brilliantly informed, these essays offer a treasure-trove of ancient wisdom, myth and philosophy, and a powerful insight into a deeply intelligent man. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Selected Essays and Dialogues
Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,46 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Book Description
This new translation of Plutarch's miscellaneous works, the Moralia, illuminates his thinking on religious, ethical, social, and political issues. Two genres are represented: the dialogue, which Plutarch wrote in a tradition nearer to Cicero than to Plato, and the informal treatise or essay, in which his personality is most clearly displayed. His diffuse and individual style conveys a character of great charm and authority. This edition includes an introduction, notes, sources of quotations, and a glossary of proper names.
Plutarch
Author : Robert Lamberton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300088113
Book Description
Written around the year 100, Plutarch's Lives have shaped perceptions of the accomplishments of the ancient Greeks and Romans for nearly two thousand years. This engaging and stimulating book introduces both general readers and students to Plutarch's own life and work. Robert Lamberton sketches the cultural context in which Plutarch worked--Greece under Roman rule--and discusses his family relationships, background, education, and political career. There are two sides to Plutarch: the most widely read source on Greek and Roman history and the educator whose philosophical and pedagogical concerns are preserved in the vast collection of essays and dialogues known as the Moralia. Lamberton analyzes these neglected writings, arguing that we must look here for Plutarch's deepest commitment as a writer and for the heart of his accomplishment. Lamberton also explores the connection between biography and historiography and shows how Plutarch's parallel biographies served the continuing process of cultural accommodation between Greeks and Romans in the Roman Empire. He concludes by discussing Plutarch's influence and reputation through the ages.
Plutarch and the Historical Tradition
Author : Philip A. Stadter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 28,92 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1134913184
Book Description
These essays, by experts in the field from five countries, examine Plutarch's interpretative and artistic reshaping of his historical sources in representative lives. Diverse essays treat literary elements such as the parallelism which renders a pair of lives a unit or the themes which unify the lives. Others consider the selecting, combining, simplifying, and enlarging employed in composition. The construction of a Plutarchian life, the essays demonstrate, required careful selection and creative reworking of the historical material available.
A Life Devoted to Plutarch: Philology, Philosophy, and Reception
Author : Paola Volpe Cacciatore
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9004448462
Book Description
Philology, philosophy, commentary and reception in Plutarch's work are only some of the main topics discussed within a large academic output devoted to the writer of Chaeronea by Professor Paola Volpe Cacciatore. The volume is divided into four sections: Plutarchean Fragments, Quaestiones convivales, Religion & Philosophy, and Plutarch's Reception from Humanism to Modern Times. The eighteen studies collected in this volume, originally published in Italian and here translated into English, concern the Corpus Plutarcheum, including Table-Talks, De Iside et Osiride, the treatises against the Stoics, De genio Socratis, De liberis educandis, De musica, and some Plutarchean fragments. The volume is a tribute to celebrate the lifelong study of Plutarch's work by Professor Paola Volpe Cacciatore, one of the most remarkable Plutarchean scholars of the last decades.
Plutarch's Moralia
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Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,16 MB
Release : 1962
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