Download or read book Plutarch s Lives Life of Julius Caesar written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Age of Caesar Five Roman Lives written by Plutarch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Plutarch regularly shows that great leaders transcend their own purely material interests and petty, personal vanities. Noble ideals actually do matter, in government as in life.” —Michael Dirda, Washington Post Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names still resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives pose a question that haunts us still: how to safeguard a republic from the flaws of its leaders. This reader’s edition of Plutarch delivers a fresh translation of notable clarity, explanatory notes, and ample historical context in the Preface and Introduction.
Download or read book Plutarch Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Complete and Unabridged written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete text of Clough's edition of Plutarch's Lives; containing fifty lives and eighteen comparisons.
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives The Complete 48 Biographies Royal Collector s Edition Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket written by Plutarch and published by Royal Classics. This book was released on 2021-01-23 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Plutarch Life of Antony written by Plutarch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-05-26 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives written by Plutarch and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Greek historian PLUTARCH (c. 46 A.D. 120 A.D.) set out to tell the tales of the famous figures from Greek and Roman history, he was more concerned with illuminating their characters than enumerating their deeds, more interested in exploring their moral failings and triumphs than in listing their conquests. The result: Plutarch s Lives. Though Plutarch is known to have taken some liberties with his Lives his comparisons of certain Greek and Roman figures are often more fanciful than strictly accurate his words are, in many instances, the only sources of information that have survived for some personages. And in the aggregate, his radical approach to biography exerted a profound influence on the literature to come, particularly throughout the Renaissance and Enlightenment. Shakespeare lifted some passages verbatim from the Lives, and other writers inspired by Plutarch range from James Boswell to Alexander Hamilton to Cotton Mather. Ralph Waldo Emerson called the Lives a bible for heroes. Across the five volumes, Plutarch explores the stories of such notables as: Romulus Pericles Coriolanus Pyrrhus Lysander Pompey Alexander Caesar Cicero Antony and others. Cosimo is proud to present these handsome new editions, based on the classic 17th-century translations by English poet and playwright JOHN DRYDEN (1631 1700), and revised and edited in the 19th century by Oxford scholar ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH (1819 1861).
Download or read book Plutarch Caesar written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch's Life of Caesar deals with the best known Roman of them all, Julius Caesar, and covers virtually all of the major events of the last generation of the Republic. Pelling's volume gives a new translation of the Life, together with an introduction and commentary, while also acknowledging the literary aspects of the narrative.
Download or read book Plutarch written by Plutarch and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. "From the Trade Paperback edition.
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives Life of Brutus written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Greek and Roman Lives written by Plutarch and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written early in the 2nd century, Plutarch's Lives offers richly detailed and anecdotal profiles of some of the ancient world's mightiest and most influential figures, including those of Alexander the Great, Cicero, and Julius Caesar.
Download or read book Roman Lives written by Plutarch and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1999-10-07 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The companion volume to Plutarch's Greek Lives published in Oxford World's Classics in 1998, Roman Lives is a newly translated selection from Plutarch's rich, elegant and learned Lives, valued throughout the ages for their historical value and their charm. The lives included are those of Marcus Cato, Aemilius Paullus, The Gracchi, Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Julius Caesar and Anthony. Closely annotated with bibliographies, maps and an index, this is the ideal edition for all students of classical history.
Download or read book Parallel Lives Complete written by Plutarch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 1613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch, also known as Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46-120 A.D.) was a Greek historian and biographer best known for his parallel lives comparisons of famous Greeks and Romans. Plutarch also wrote biographies on many famous people of his day.
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cato the elder, speaking to some persons who were praising a man of reckless daring and audacity in war, observed that there is a difference between a man's setting a high value on courage, and setting a low value on his own life-and rightly. For a daring soldier in the army of Antigonus, but of broken and ill health, being asked by the king the reason of his paleness, confessed that he was suffering from some secret disorder. When then the king, anxious for him, charged his physicians to use the greatest care in their treatment, if a cure were possible, at length this brave fellow, being restored to health, was no longer fond of peril and furious in battle, so that Antigonus reproved him, and expressed surprise at the change. The man made no secret of his reason, but answered: "My, king, you have made me less warlike by freeing me from those miseries on account of which I used to hold my life cheap." And the Sybarite seems to have spoken to the same effect about the Spartans, when he said that "they do no great thing by dying in the wars in order to escape from such labours and such a mode of life as theirs." However, no wonder if the Sybarites, effete with luxurious debauchery, thought men mad who despised death for love of honour and noble emulation; whereas the Lacedæmonians were enabled by their valour both to live and to die with pleasure, as the elegy shows, which runs thus: "'Twas not that life or death itself was good, That these heroic spirits shed their blood: This was their aim, and this their latest cry, 'Let us preserve our honour, live or die.'" 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 carelessness 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.
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives written by Plutarch and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-11 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, probably written at the beginning of the second century AD. The surviving Parallel Lives comprises twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a source of information about the individuals described, but also about the times in which they lived.As he explains in the first paragraph of his Life of Alexander, Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, but with exploring the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and destinies of famous men. He wished to prove that the more remote past of Greece could show its men of action and achievement as well as the nearer, and therefore more impressive, past of Rome. His interest was primarily ethical, although the lives have significant historical value as well. The Lives was published by Plutarch late in his life after his return to Chaeronea and, if one may judge from the long lists of authorities given, it must have taken many years to compile.CONTENTS1. Cimon 2. Lucullus 3. Comparison of Lucullus with Cimon 4. Nicias 5. Crassus 6. Comparison of Crassus with Nicias 7. Sertorius 8. Eumenes 9. Comparison of Sertorius with Eumenes 10. Agesilaus 11. Pompey 12. Comparison of Pompey and Agesilaus 13. Alexander 14. Caesar 15. Phocion 16. Cato the Younger 17. Agis 18. Cleomenes 19. Tiberius Gracchus 20. Caius Gracchus 21. Comparison of Tiberius and Caius Gracchus with Agis and Cleomenes 22. Demosthenes 23. Cicero 24. Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero 25. Demetrius 26. Antony 27. Comparison of Demetrius and Antony 28. Dion 29. Marcus Brutus 30. Comparison of Dion and Brutus 31. Aratus 32. Artaxerxes 33. Galba 34. Otho
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