Browse by category
Fall Of The Roman Republic by Plutarch
Category: History
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
How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide T.. by Plutarch; Jeffrey Beneker; Plutarch Plutarch
Category: History | 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
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
On Sparta by Plutarch
Category: History
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 S LIVES Vol 2 by Plutarch
Category: History | Series: Modern Library
Offers biographies of Greek and Roman leaders and compares their personal qualities and accomplishments.
PLUTARCH'S LIVES VOL 1 by Plutarch
Category: History | Series: Modern Library
The brilliant social history of the Greek and Roman world, "Lives" is Plutarch's best known work, translated by Dryden. It is edited with a foreword by Arthur Hugh Clough and a new introduction by James Atlas.
Plutarch - Essays by Robin (TRN) Plutarch; Waterfield
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics
Selections from one of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world Plutarch used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb selection from his writings, he offers personal insights into moral subjects that include the virtue of lis ...Show more
Rise and Fall of Athens by PLUTARCH
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading pu ...Show more
The Age of Alexander by Plutarch
Category: History
Vivid biographies of famous characters from the Ancient Greek world, in a revised edition of Ian Scott-Kilvert's seminal translation The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen since the Renaissance, most notably S ...Show more
The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives by Plutarch
Category: History
Major figures in the civil wars that ended the Roman Republic, the names Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus and Antony haunt us with questions of character and authority. Plutarch's rich, vivid profiles show character-shaping history through grand scale events and intimate details. The creator and master of ...Show more
The Age of Caesar - Five Roman Lives by Plutarch; James Romm (Editor); Pamela Mensch (Translator); Mary Beard (Foreword by)
Category: History
"Plutarch regularly shows that great leaders transcend their own purely material interests and petty, personal vanities. Noble ideals actually do matter, in government as in life." --Michael Dirda, Washington Post Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names still resonate across thousands of year ...Show more
The Complete Collection of Plutarch's Parallel Lives by Plutarch
Category: History
Plutarch, later named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, c. 46 - 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. Plutarch lived most of his life at Chaeronea, and his duties as the senior of the two ...Show more