Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 7863 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Philosophy
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Plutarch created a diverse range of works that have entertained generations of readers since the days of Imperial Rome. Plutarch's writings had an enormous influence on English and French literature. Plutarch was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Moralia, a collection of essays and speeches.
Author : PLUTARCH. PLUTARCH
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2018
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ISBN : 9781033310281
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 2004-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0141920459
These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's Roman Lives, they include prominent figures who achieved fame for their pivotal roles in Roman history, such as soldierly Marcellus, eloquent Cato and cautious Fabius. Here too are vivid portraits of ambitious, hot-tempered Coriolanus; objective, principled Brutus and open-hearted Mark Anthony, who would later be brought to life by Shakespeare. In recounting the lives of these great leaders, Plutarch also explores the problems of statecraft and power and illustrates the Roman people's genius for political compromise, which led to their mastery of the ancient world.
Author : Noreen Humble
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 2010-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1910589233
Plutarch's Parallel Lives were written to compare famous Greeks and Romans. This most obvious aspect of their parallelism is frequently ignored in the drive to mine Plutarch for historical fact. However, the eleven contributors to the present volume, who include most of the world's leading commentators on Plutarch, together bring out many ways in which Plutarch invoked aspects of parallelism. They show how pervasive and how central the whole notion was to his thinking. With new analysis of the synkriseis; with discussion of parallels within and across the Lives and in the Moralia; with an examination of why the basic parallel structure of the Lives lost its importance in the Renaissance, this volume presents fresh ideas on a neglected topic crucial to Plutarch's literary creation.
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 1988-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521284189
This edition will be of interest to all Greek scholars, ancient historians, and also the students of English literature since the relevant discussions require no knowledge of Greek.
Author : Plutarch,
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199537380
Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures of classical Rome. He portrays virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, but his purpose is also to educate and warn those in his own day who wielded power.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 1962
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Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Royal Classics
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 21,32 MB
Release : 2021-01-23
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ISBN : 9781774761229
Plutarch's Lives is a series of 48 biographies of famous men. The work includes 23 pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman of similar destiny, such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar.
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2004-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1588363473
In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father’s empire through-out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander’s prediction that the new king “should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.” The Life of Alexander the Great is one of the first surviving attempts to memorialize the achievements of this legendary king, remembered today as the greatest military genius of all time. This exclusive Modern Library edition, excerpted from Plutarch’s Lives, is a riveting tale of honor, power, scandal, and bravery written by the most eminent biographer of the ancient world.
Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Greece
ISBN : 9780999146682
Volume 1 in a series of translations of Plutarch's Parallel Live from the translators of Marcus Aurelius "Meditations."
