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Plutarch's lives : the "Dryden Plutarch" by Plutarch. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The present translation is a revision by Arthur Hugh Clough of one published at the end of the seventeenth century, with a life of Plutarch written by Dryden. Though much has been said of Plutarch's inaccuracy and passion for anecdote, it should be remembered (as the translator says in his foreword) that he was moralist rather than a historian, interested less in politics and the changes of empires than in personal character and individual motives to action. -- From publisher's description
Who reads Plutarch's lives : the "Dryden Plutarch"?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Plutarch.
- Publisher
- J.M. Dent ; E.P. Dutton, [1910]
- Published
- 1910
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
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