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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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Parthenius,Plutarch
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
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Walter W Skeat
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
William W Goodwin
Reprint of the original, first published in 1878.
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…
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…
Plutarch
Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any field.
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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…
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
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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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…
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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…
As well as providing an illuminating picture of the first century AD, the author depicts complex and nuanced heroes who display the essential virtues of Greek civilization - courage, patriotism…
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
Parthenius Minges
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…
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Geschichte der Franziskaner in Bayern ist ein unveranderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1896. Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschiedlichen Themengebieten wie Forschung und Wissenschaft, Reisen und…
Minges Parthenius
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by…
Apollodorus,Parthenius
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
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…
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…
