Download or read book Plutarch s Lives of Greek Heroes written by Plutarch Plutarch and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives of Greek Heroes Classic Reprint written by Plutarch Plutarch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives of Greek Heroes Autobiographies of Boyhood. Passages in the Life of a Galley Slave. From the French. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives Translated From the Original Greek Vol 2 of 6 written by Plutarch Plutarch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Translated From the Original Greek, Vol. 2 of 6: With Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch T Pliny's account of the'matter is much more probable, viz. That; they were called Fabzz, From'their {kill in railing beans as féveral other families of note among the Romans were denominated {i'om other branches of hufhandrji. Indeed, their hri'c heroes tilled the ground with their own hands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives Vol 2 of 4 written by Plutarch Plutarch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 2 of 4: Translated From the Greek, With Notes and a Life of Plutarch For neither is avoidance of death blameable, if a man does not cling to his life from dishonourable motives; nor is exposure to peril honourable, if it springs from careless ness of life. For this reason Homer always brings the most daring and warlike heroes into battle well and beautifully armed, and the Greek lawgivers punish the man who throws away his Shield, but not him who throws away his Sword or spear, showing that it is each man's duty to take more care that he does not receive. Hurt himself, than to hurt the enemy, especially if he be the chief Of an army or city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives written by John Langhorne and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives: Translated From the Original Greek; With Notes, Critical and Historical and a Life of Plutarch If the merit of a Work may be estimated from the universality of its reception, Plutarch's Lives have a claim to the first honors of Literature. No book has been more generally sought after, or read with greater avidity. It was one of the first that were brought out of the retreats of the learned, and translated into the modern languages. Amiot, Abbe of Bellozane, published a French translation of it in the reign of Henry the Second; and from that work it was translated into English, in the time of Queen Elizabeth. It is said by those who are not willing to allow Shakspeare much learning, that he availed himself of the last-mentioned translation; but they seem to forget that, in order to support their arguments of this kind, it is necessary for them to prove that Plato too was translated into English at the same time; for the celebrated soliloquy, "To be, or not to be," is taken almost verbatim, from that philosopher; yet we have never found that Plato was translated in those times. Amiot was a man of great industry and considerable learning. He sought diligently in the libraries of Rome and Venice for those Lives of Plutarch which are lost; and though his search was unsuccessful, it had this good effect, that, by meeting with a variety of manuscripts, and comparing them with the printed copies, he was enabled in many places to rectify the text. This was a very essential circumstance; for few ancient writers had suffered more than Plutarch from the carelessness of printers and transcribers; and, with all his merit, it was his fate, for a long time, to find no able restorer. The Schoolmen despised his Greek, because it, had not the purity of Xenophon, nor the attic terseness of Aristophanes; and, on that account, very unreasonably bestowed their labors on those that wanted them less. Amiot's translation was published in the year 1558; but no reputable edition of the Greek text of Plutarch appeared until that of Paris in 1624. The above-mentioned translation, however, though drawn from an imperfect text, passed through many editions, and was still read, until Dacier, under better auspices, and in better times, attempted a new one; which he executed with great elegance, and tolerable accuracy. The text he followed was not so correct as might have been wished; for the London edition of Plutarch was not then published. However, the French language being at that time in great perfection, and the fashionable language of almost every court in Europe, Dacier's translation came not only into the libraries but into the hands of men. Plutarch was universally read, and no book in those times had a more extensive sale, or went through a greater number of impressions. The translator had, indeed, acquitted himself, in one respect, with great happiness. His book was not found to be French Greek. He had carefully followed that rule, which no translator ought ever to lose sight of, the great rule of humoring the genius, and maintaining the structure of his own language. For this purpose he frequently broke the long and embarrassed periods of the Greek; and by dividing and shortening them in his translation, he gave them greater perspicuity and more easy movement. Yet still he was faithful to his original; and where he did not mistake him, which indeed he seldom did, conveyed his ideas with clearness, though not without verbosity. His translation had another distinguished advantage. He enriched it with a variety of explanatory notes. There are so many readers who have no competent acquaintance with the customs of antiquity, the laws of the ancient states, the ceremonies of their religion, arid the remoter and minuter parts of their history and genealogy, that to have an account of these matters ever before the eye, and to travel with a guide who is ready to describe to us every object we are unacqu
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Download or read book Plutarch s Lives written by Plutarch Plutarch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives: Translated From the Greek, With Notes The date of Plutarch's birth may be approximately placed in the year 50 of our era, when Greece was decadent and well-nigh depopulated, and an absolu te military despotism prevailed at Rome. Nero came to the imperial throne in 54 a.d., and the apostle Peter entered the imperial city with the message of Christianity only a few years later. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives Translated From the Original Greek Vol 3 of 8 written by Plutarch Plutarch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Translated From the Original Greek, Vol. 3 of 8: With Notes Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch This Paulas had a daughter named Emilia, who was married to Scipio the Great, and a son called Paulus, whose history I am now writing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives Vol 1 of 6 written by John Langhorne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 1 of 6: Translated From the Original Greek, With Notes Critical and Historical, a New Life of Plutarch Yet this is the lafl tranllation of Plutarch's Lives that has appeared in the Englilh language, and the only, one that is now read. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives Vol 3 of 4 written by Aubrey Stewart and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-11 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 3 of 4: Translated From the Greek Athenians because they protected the people of Egesta, who were descended from the Trojans, whereas he had been wrostged by Laomedon, king of Troy, and had destroyed that city. Timaeus was probably led to write this sort of nonsense by the same critical literary Spirit which led him to correct the style of Philistins, and to find fault with that of Aristotle and Plato. My own Opinion is that to pay too much attention to mere style and to endeavour to surpass that of other writers, is both trifling and pedantic, while any attempt to reproduce that of the unapproachable masterpieces of antiquity springs from a want of power to appreciate their real value. With regard, then, to the actions of Nikias described by Thucydides and Philistins, more especially those which illustrate his true character, having been performed under the stress of terrible disasters, I shall briefly re capitulate them, lest I be thought a careless biographer, adding to them whatever scattered notices I have been able to collect from the writings of other historians and from public documents and inscriptions; and of these latter I shall quote only those which enable us to judge what manner of man he was. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives Vol 2 of 3 written by Plutarch Plutarch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 2 of 3: From the Original Greek, With Notes, Critical, Historical, and Chronological and a New Life of Plutarch Should act. \vhile I'yrrhus, of his own accord, creeping closer to him, took hold of his robe, and raising himself tip to his knees, by this action first excited a smile, and afterwards compassion; for he thought he saw a petitioner before him begging his protection with tears. Some say it was not Glaucias', but the altar of the domestic gods, which he approached, and that he raised himself by embracing it; from which it appeared to (elaueias that heaverr interested itself in the infant's favour. For this reason, he put him imr. Et'i'rtelv in the hands of the queen, and ordered her to bring him up with his own enemies demanding him soon after, and Cassander offering two hundred talents to have him delivered up, ('iaoeias re fused to do it; and when he came to be twelve ye. Rs old, ducted him into Epirus at the head of an army, and placed him up on the throne. Pyrrhus had an air of maiesty rather terrible than august. Instead of teeth in his upper jaw, he had one continued bone, marked with small lines resembling the divisions ofa row of teeth. It w as ljl'llc\ ed that be cured the swelling of the spleen bv s'dctlfitlllg a white cock, and, with his right foot, gently pressing the part affected, the path rrts lying Upon their hacks for that purpose. There v. As no person, how ever poor or mean, refused this relief, if requested. He recerved no reward, except the cock for sacrifice, and this present was very agree able to him. It is also said, that the great toe of that toot had a di vine virtue in it; for, after his death, when the rest of his body was consumed, that toe was found entire and untouched by the flames. But this account belongs not to the period we are upon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives Vol 4 of 6 written by Plutarchus Plutarchus and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 4 of 6: Translated From the Original Greek, With Notes Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch T is not at all aftonilhing, that Fortune in the vaa riety of her motions, through a courfe of number lefs ages, happens often to hit upon the fame point. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives Vol 4 of 4 written by Aubrey Stewart and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 4 of 4: Translated From the Greek, With Notes and a Life of Plutarch XIV. The Spartans at once despatched Agis at the head of an army, whose high spirits and devotion to his person filled him with delight. The men were nearly all young and poor; and as they were now relieved from the pressure Of their debts, and expected that on their return the land would be distributed amongst them, they behaved with the most admirable discipline. They marched through Peloponnesus without doing the least damage, without Offending any one, almost without noise; so that all the cities were astonished at the spectacle thus afforded them, and men began to wonder what a Lacedaemonian army must have been like when led by Agesilaus or Lysander the Great, or by the ancient hero Leonidas, if such awe and reverence was paid by the soldiers to one who was nearly the youngest of them all. Their youthful leader himself was worthy of admiration, and'was looked up to by the men because of his simple hard-working habits, and the pride which he took in wearing the same dress and using the same arms as the common soldiers. The revolution which he had effected, however, was very dis tasteful to the rich, who feared lest it might be taken as an example by the people in other states and lead to further disturbances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives Translated From the Original Greek Vol 6 of 6 written by Plutarch Plutarch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Translated From the Original Greek, Vol. 6 of 6: With Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives Vol 1 of 4 written by John Langhorne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 1 of 4: Translated From the Original Greek; With Notes, Historical and Critical; And a Life of Plutarch Ir the merit Of a work may be estimated from the universality Of its receptlon, Plutarch's Lives have a claim to the first honours Of literature. N O book has been more generally sought after, or read with eater avidit It was one of the first that were rought out 0 the retreats Of the learned, and translated into the modern languages. Amiot, Abbe Of Bellozane, ublished a French translation Of it in the reign of enry II.; and from that work it was translated into English, in the time Of queen Elizabeth. It is said by those who are not willing to allow Shakspeare much leamin that he availed him self O the last-mentione translation; but they seem to forget, that, in order to su port their argu ments Of this kind, it is necessary or them to prove that Plato, too, was translated Into English at the same time; for the celebrated soliloquy, TO be, or not to be, is taken, almost verbatim, from that philosopher; et we have never found that Plato was translate in those times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives of Illustrious Men Vol 1 written by Plutarch Plutarch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men, Vol. 1: John Dryden's Translation, Corrected From the Greek and Revised and Annotated The collection so well known as Plutarch's Lives, is net ther in form nor in arrangement what its author left behind him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives Vol 1 of 6 Translated from the Original Greek With Notes Critical and Historical and a New Life of Plutarch Classic Reprint written by Plutarchus Plutarchus and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 1 of 6: Translated From the Original Greek; With Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch Yet this is the lalt tranflation of Plutarch's Lives that has appear ed in the Englifh language, and the only one that is now read. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.