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Christopher Pelling
Christopher Pelling provides the first detailed commentary and translation with notes in over fifty years of Plutarch's Life of Alexander. This is a companion volume to Pelling's Plutarch Caesar (2011)…
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Walter W Skeat
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
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William W Goodwin
Reprint of the original, first published in 1878.
Theofanis Tsiampokalos
A fundamental reappraisal of Plutarch's attitude towards rhetoric.
Plutarch was not only a skilled writer, but also lived during the Second Sophistic, a period of cultural renaissance. This book offers…
Plutarch, Anne E White
Publicola, one of the first consuls of the Roman Republic, was "the most eminent amongst the Romans" and 'the fountain of their honour." This updated edition of The Plutarch Primer…
Rebecca Kingston
Explores how the work of the first-century historian and moralist Plutarch was translated into French and English during the Renaissance and read and invoked in political argument from the early…
Plutarch
Plutarch’s vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city-state between the…
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Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any field.
This volume addresses the important literary phenomenon of 'generic enrichment' in Plutarch's Parallel Lives, examining the ways in which features of other genres are deployed and incorporated in Plutarch's biographies…
The volume puts into the spotlight overlaps between Plutarch and other imperial writers. By examining the Plutarchan corpus within the context of contemporary literary production, it contributes to our understanding…
John Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough
George Q Cannon
Ce livre classique a ete initialement publie il y a plusieurs decennies sous le titre "My First Mission". Il a maintenant ete traduit par Writat en langue francaise pour ses…
Dieses klassische Buch wurde urspruenglich vor Jahrzehnten unter dem Titel "My First Mission". Es wurde jetzt von Writat fuer seine franzoesischsprachigen Leser in die franzoesische Sprache uebersetzt. Bei Writat liegt…
William Henry Giles Kingston
Ce livre classique a ete initialement publie il y a plusieurs decennies sous le titre ""My First Cruise, and Other stories"". Il a maintenant ete traduit par Writat en langue…
Dieses klassische Buch wurde urspruenglich vor Jahrzehnten unter dem Titel ""My First Cruise, and Other stories"". Es wurde jetzt von Writat fuer seine franzoesischsprachigen Leser in die franzoesische Sprache uebersetzt…
Joseph W Grant
Dieses klassische Buch wurde urspruenglich vor Jahrzehnten unter dem Titel "My First Campaign". Es wurde jetzt von Writat fuer seine franzoesischsprachigen Leser in die franzoesische Sprache uebersetzt. Bei Writat liegt…
John Muir
Ce livre classique a ete initialement publie il y a plusieurs decennies sous le titre "My First Summer in the Sierra". Il a maintenant ete traduit par Writat en langue…
Taken from the Lives , a series of biographies spanning the Graeco-Roman age, this collection describes the twilight of the old Roman Republic from 157-43 BC. Deeply influential on Shakespeare…
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In the eight lives of this collection, Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures and periods of classical Rome. He portrays virtues to be emulated and vices to be…
Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the…
Offers a collection of ten biographies that spans the period from the start of the fourth century BC to the early third, and covers some of the most important figures…
Ce livre classique a ete initialement publie il y a plusieurs decennies sous le titre "My First Campaign". Il a maintenant ete traduit par Writat en langue francaise pour ses…
Ed Henry Morley
"Ideal Commonwealths" by Henry Morley is a thought-provoking exploration of utopian visions, societal structures, governance models, and ethical frameworks. Through an in-depth analysis of utopian literature, Morley delves into the…
Luke O'Sullivan
Offers a new understanding of doubt in Montaigne's Essais and early modern intellectual culture
Mary Lefkowitz, James Romm
From the leading scholars behind The Greek Plays, a collection of the best translations of the foremost Greek historians, presenting a sweeping history of ancient Greece as recorded by its…
Plutarch,Plutarch Plutarch
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…
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Plutarch Plutarch
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
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…
