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'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 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 story-teller's ear for a good anecdote. Throughout the ages Plutarch's Lives have been valued for their historical value and their charm. This new translation will introduce new generations to his urbane erudition. The most comprehensive selection available, it is accompanied by a lucid introduction, explanatory notes, bibliographies, maps and indexes. Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: Greek About the Author Philip A Stadter is
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- Author
- Plutarch
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 1954
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192825025
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Historical Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.97 / 5 (261 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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)
- 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)
- Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives (Oxford World's Classics) (2000)
- 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)