Download or read book Plutarch s Lives Translated from the Greek with Notes and a Life of Plutarch Complete written by Plutarch and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1952-01-01 with total page 2204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives Vol I written by Plutarch and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives Volume 1 of 4 written by Plutarch and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) is a classic work of biography and historical analysis that delves into the lives of famous Greek and Roman figures such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. Plutarch's distinctive literary style combines factual information with moral lessons and character sketches, providing readers with a rich tapestry of human experience. This book serves as a comprehensive guide to the great leaders and thinkers of antiquity, offering valuable insights into their accomplishments and failures. Plutarch's use of comparison and contrast in his biographies highlights the virtues and vices of his subjects, making this volume a must-read for students of history and literature alike. Plutarch, a Greek historian and biographer, was deeply interested in exploring the complexities of human character and the impact of individual decisions on history. His meticulous research and thoughtful analysis in Plutarch's Lives reflect his dedication to uncovering the truth behind the myths surrounding ancient figures. Plutarch's own experiences as a teacher and philosopher likely influenced his approach to writing, as he sought to educate and inspire his readers through the lives of notable individuals. I highly recommend Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) to anyone interested in ancient history, classical literature, or the art of biography. This foundational work offers a wealth of knowledge and wisdom that continues to resonate with readers today.
Download or read book A Catalogue of Books for the Library Comprising a Selection of the Best Editions of Standard Works by Ancient and Modern Authors written by Sotheran, Henry and Co and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plutarch s Lives written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bibliographer s Manual of English Literature written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sotheran s Price Current of Literature written by Henry Sotheran Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parallel Lives Vol 1 written by Plutarch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of "Psychical Research," and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897), Magic and Religion (1901) and The Secret of the Totem (1905). He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Epic (1893); a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns (1899), with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age (1906). He also wrote Ballades in Blue China (1880) and Rhymes la Mode (1884).
Download or read book Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans written by Plutarch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 2101 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. The surviving Parallel Lives, contain 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 biographized, but also about the times in which they lived.
Download or read book Walton s Lives written by Jessica Martin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that Walton's practice, in his Lives, was crucial in shaping modern expectations of biography: how it should be organised, how it should treat evidence, how seriously it should regard narrative coherence, and most particularly in the modern expectation of an intimaterelationship between author, reader, and subject. Dr Martin considers Walton's biographical ethics in relation to the tributary genres influencing him as they emerged from post-Reformation commendatory practice after 1546, most particularly classical funeral oratory and the emergent Protestantfuneral sermon, the Plutarchan parallel, the didactic Character, martyrological narrative, and finally Walton's direct model, the exemplary biographical commemoration of the conformist minister.Dr Martin considers how Walton develops his literary inheritance, arguing that his lay status required him to initiate a different kind of mediation between reader and subject from the straightforwardly imitative. Walton presents himself as a channel for the words and acts of an authoritativesubject, a preference implicitly followed both in his stress on personal connections with his subjects (which spectacularly particularizes his portraits) and in his very extensive use of their own writings. His Lives attempt posthumous autobiography. They are also considered as prominent andaccomplished examples of the many politically intended narratives which exploit a consensual interpretation of private virtue to support, without having to argue for, a sectarian interpretation of public rectitude.
Download or read book The Bibliographer s Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare Curious and Useful Books Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland from the Invention of Printing with Bibliographical and Critical Notices Collations of the Rarer Articles and the Prices at which They Have Been Sold in the Present Century by William Thomas Lowndes written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue des livres de A M H Boulard written by Antoine Marie H. Boulard and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Translations from the Greek written by Finley Melville Kendall Foster and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biography and History written by Barbara Caine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the complex relationship between the discipline of history and the writing of lives, this key textbook provides an original and insightful introduction to a growing and increasingly important area of historical scholarship and research. Examining key works that have changed the nature of biography, Barbara Caine also explores the way biographical narrative and life stories have become a central preoccupation for history. Outlining the main features of contemporary historical biography, this is an ideal companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses on historiography, theory and history, theory and methods, historical methodology, history and life/biographical/autobiographical writing, and life-writing courses on English or creative writing degrees. New to this Edition: - Thoroughly updated throughout - New concluding chapter on history and the individual life, and the place of biography in history
Download or read book After Ancient Biography written by Robert Fraser and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages. Close readings of ancient texts are framed by an assessment of their influence on the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon, and on the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, of responses to ancient biography of modern critics, and of its visible legacy in art and film. Crucially it asks what modern biographers can learn from their ancient predecessors. Are the challenges involved in life-writing still the same? Have working methods changed, and in what ways? What in the context of biographical writing is truth, and how are its interests best served? How is it possible, now as then, honestly to convey a life?
Download or read book Bibliotheca Britannica Or A General Index to British and Foreign Literature written by Robert Watt and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
