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Marcus Cato Sulla Aemilius Paullus Pompey The Gracchi Marius Julius Caesar Anthony 'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest.' 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 avoided, but his purpose is also im
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- Author
- Plutarch; Philip A. Stadter, Robin Waterfield (trans.)
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780191605086
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Historical Fiction, Education
- Rating
- 3.97 / 5 (261 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- Vite parallele. Vol. V (1994)
- Vite parallele. Vol. II (1992)
- Vite parallele. Vol. VI (1998)
- Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (Modern Library Classics) (2011)
- Greek lives : a selection of nine Greek lives (1973)
- Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives (Oxford World's Classics) (1999)
- Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Roman Lives (Oxford World's Classics) (1954)
- The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II (Modern Library) (1992)
- Plutarch Lives, VII, Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar (Loeb Classical Library) (Volume VII) (1967)
- Plutarch's Lives - 02 The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (2000)
- Plutarch: Moralia, Volume I (The Education of Children. How the Young Man Should Study Poetry. On Listening to Lectures. How to Tell a Flatterer from a ... in V (1927)
- Plutarch's Lives: Pericles and Fabius Maximus. Nicias and Crassus (1932)
- Plutarch: Greek Lives: A Selection of Nine Greek Lives (1999)
- Plutarch Lives, VII, Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar (Loeb Classical Library No. 99) (1967)
- Plutarch: Greek Lives: A Selection of Nine Greek Lives (1998)
- The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II (Modern Library) (2000)
- Plutarch's Lives - 01 The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I: (1992)
- Moralia, in fifteen volumes, with an English translation by Frank Cole Babbitt (1962)
- Greek lives : a selection of nine Greek lives (1998)
- Plutarch's Lives, Volume III: Pericles and Fabius Maximus. Nicias and Crassus (Loeb Classical Library No. 65) (1932)
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