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Demosthenes and Cicero - Alexander and Caesar by Bernadotte Perrin; Plutarch
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45-120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daug ...Show more
Fall Of The Roman Republic by Plutarch
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Category: Classics
Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesman of the classical period. Taken from The Lives, a series of biographies spanning the Graeco-Roman age ...Show more
On Sparta by Plutarch
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Category: Classics
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 their remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta's leaders and his recording of memorable Spartan Sayings, he de ...Show more
The Makers of Rome by Plutarch
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nine biographies that illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen The lives of the statesmen featured in this collection span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's Roman Lives, they include pro ...Show more
Theseus and Romulus - Lycurgus and Numa - Solon and Publicola by Plutarch; Bernadotte Perrin (Translator)
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Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Plutarch (c. 45 120 CE) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs, one Greek figure and one similar Roman, though the last four lives are single. They not only record careers and illustrious deeds but also offer rounded portraits of stat ...Show more
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