Greek Lives
A Selection of Nine Greek Lives
$25.06
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2008
Summary
Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander.
“I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror…The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest.”
In the nine lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures and periods of classical Greece. He portrays virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199540051 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199540055 |
| Author: | Plutarch, Robin Waterfield, Philip A. Stadter |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2008 |
| Weight: | 361g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 129mm x 195mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
| Audience Age: | 15-18 |
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Critics Review
‘This attractively produced addition to the Oxford World’s Classics series.‘Daniel Ogden, The Classical Review Vol.XLIX No.2
It is ... a privilege to be offered this sparkling new translation of nine of his Greek Lives by Robin Waterfield. ... It is ... a distinguishing trait of Waterfield's that in the interests of scholarship he will go to endless lengths to find the mot juste; ... the book entirely fulfils the publisher's own criteria for inclusion in the new Oxford World's Classics list, namely to make available 'celebrated writing' in editions equipped with'perceptivecommentary and essential back-ground information to meet the changing needs of readers'. To do all that also at a very modest price is an ergon (achievement) indeed.'Paul Cartledge, The Anglo-Hellenic ReviewThis attractively produced addition to the Oxford World’s Classics series.‘Daniel Ogden, The Classical Review Vol.XLIX No.2
Plutarch
Philip A. Stadter is Falk Professor in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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