Plutarch's lives / Plutarch, Arthur Hugh Clough, John Dryden, James Atlas.
By: Plutarch.
Contributor(s): Clough, Arthur Hugh | Dryden, John | Atlas, James.
Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: New York : Random House, 2001Edition: Modern Library Paperback ed.Description: 766 p.ISBN: 0375756760 ; 9780375756764 .Subject(s): Plutarch Translations into English | Plutarch Translations into English | Rome Biography | Greece BiographyDDC classification: 920 P737P 2001 Summary: 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.Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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.
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