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Description for Greek Lives
Paperback. Editor(s): Stadter, Philip A. Translator(s): Waterfield, Robin. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 193 x 131 x 28. Weight in Grams: 366.
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 the nine lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures and periods of classical Greece. 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 ... Read more
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 the nine lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures and periods of classical Greece. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199540051
SKU
V9780199540051
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Ref
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About Plutarch
Philip A Stadter is Falk Professor in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Reviews for Greek Lives
It is ... a privilege to be offered this sparkling new translation of nine of his Greek Lives by Robin Waterfield. ... It is ... a distinguishing trait of Waterfield's that in the interests of scholarship he will go to endless lengths to find the mot juste; ... the book entirely fulfils the publisher's own criteria for inclusion in the ... Read more