The Age of Alexander
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- Paperback
672 pages
- Release Date
16 April 2012
Summary
The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen since the Renaissance, most notably Shakespeare.
This selection of ten biographies spans the period from the start of the fourth century BC to the early third, and covers some of the most important figures in Greek history, such as the orator Demosthenes and Alexander the Great, as well as lesser known figures such as Plato’s pupil Dion of Syracuse. Eac…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140449358 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140449353 |
| Author: | Plutarch, Timothy Duff, Ian Scott-Kilvert |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Release Date: | 16 April 2012 |
| Weight: | 485g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 128mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Audience Age: | 15-18 |
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Plutarch
PLUTARCH (c. AD 45-120)
The Greek philosopher Plutarch lived at the height of the Roman Empire and is the author of one of the largest 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.
IAN SCOTT-KILVERT
Ian Scott-Kilvert was Director of English Literature at the British Council and Editor of Writers and the Works. He also translated Cassius Dio’s The Roman History as well as Plutarch’s The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives and Makers of Rome for Penguin Classics. He died in 1989.
TIMOTHY E. DUFF
Timothy E. Duff is Reader in Classics at the University of Reading. He is the author of Plutarch’s Lives: Exploring Virtue and Vice (Oxford 1999) and Greek and Roman Historians (Duckworth 2003) and has published extensively on Plutarch.
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