Book
Plutarch's Lives Vol. I
by Plutarch
- Published
- 100
- Genre
- Classics
- Pages
- 766
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/415634.Plutarch_s_Lives?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_16
Reading measures
- Suggested reading age
- ages 9–18
- Ambleside year
- Years 4–12 · ages 9–20
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Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus and Theseus, Numa and Lycurgus, Fabius and Pericles, and many more powerful figures of ancient Greece and Rome. The present translation, originally published in 1683 in conjunction with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes and preface are also included in this edition.
Tags
Ancient RomeBiographyCollectionHistory-Ancient GreeceTranslation