Roman lives : a selection of eight Roman lives / Plutarch ; translated by Robin Waterfield ; with introductions and notes by Philip A. Stadter.

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Plutarch

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TextLanguage: English Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Series: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xxxiv, 551 pages) : mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191561306
0191561304
0585370001
9780585370002

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Lives. Selections. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Roman lives.DDC classification:

920.0376 937.05092

LOC classification:

DG260.A1 P53 1999eb

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Contents:

Cato the Elder -- Aemilius Paullus -- Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus -- Marius -- Sulla -- Pompey -- Caesar -- Antony.

Review: "In the eight lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures of classical Rome. He portrays virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, but his purpose is also implicitly to educate and warn those in his own day who wielded power. In prose that is rich, elegant, and sprinkled with learned references, he explores with an extraordinary degree of insight the interplay of character and political action. While drawing chiefly on historical sources, he brings to biography a natural storyteller's ear for a good anecdote."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages xxx-xxxii) and index.

"In the eight lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures of classical Rome. He portrays virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, but his purpose is also implicitly to educate and warn those in his own day who wielded power. In prose that is rich, elegant, and sprinkled with learned references, he explores with an extraordinary degree of insight the interplay of character and political action. While drawing chiefly on historical sources, he brings to biography a natural storyteller's ear for a good anecdote."--Jacket.

Cato the Elder -- Aemilius Paullus -- Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus -- Marius -- Sulla -- Pompey -- Caesar -- Antony.

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