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Alexander by Plutarch
Category: History
Inspired in his leadership, fearless in battle, and boundless in his ambition, Alexander the Great inherited his father's empire at the age of 20 and resolved to expand it. By the time of his death at 32, his empire covered most of the known world - from Greece to India - and comprised 2 million square ...Show more
Fall Of The Roman Republic by Plutarch
Category: Classic
Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesman of the classical period. Taken from The Lives, a series of biographies spanning the Graeco-Roman age ...Show more
Fall of the Roman Republic - Six Lives by Plutarch by Plutarch
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
This collection illuminates the twilight of the old Roman Republic. It describes the would-be dictators of Crassus and Spartacus, the death of political idealist Cato, Julius Caesar'S triumph in Gaul, the elegant oratory of Cicero and more, giving an insight into an empire wrecked by political divisions ...Show more
Greek Lives: A Selection of Nine Greek Lives by Plutarch
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander '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 t ...Show more
Hellenistic Lives by PLUTARCH
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: World's Classics Ser.
Alexander * Demosthenes * Phocion * Eumenes * Demetrius * Pyrrhus * Agis and Cleomenes * Aratus * Philopoemen * FlamininusThis selection of ten Lives traces the history of Hellenistic Greece from the rise of Macedon and Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire to the arrival of the Romans. Plutarch's ...Show more
How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide T.. by Plutarch; Jeffrey Beneker; Plutarch Plutarch
Category: Humour | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any field The ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled in his famous--and massive--Lives, including politicians and generals such as Pericles, Alexander the Gre ...Show more
In Consolation to His Wife (Penguin "Great Ideas" Series) by Plutarch
Category: Culture | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
From an intimate and moving letter to his grieving wife on the death of their daughter, to elegant writings on morality, happiness and the avoidance of anger, Plutarch's powerful words of consolation and inspiration still offer timeless wisdom and guidance today. Throughout history, some books have chan ...Show more
Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Judith Thomas; Mossman Plutarch; North
Category: Classic Fiction
MOD LIB THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER THE GRE by PLUTARCH
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty- year- old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father's empire through- out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, ful?lling the soothsayer Aristander's prediction that the new king ...Show more
Moralia: v.5 by Plutarch
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daug ...Show more
On Sparta by Plutarch
Category: Classic Fiction
Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of their remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta's leaders and his recording of memorable Spartan Sayings, he de ...Show more
PLUTARCH LIVES VOL V by Plutarch; Bernadotte Perrin
Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45-120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daug ...Show more