Plutarch's essay takes on an unusual philosophical problem: people who talk too much...
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...
Diogenes of Sinope is undoubtedly the most well-known Cynic philosopher from antiquity. We possess no direct writings from Diogenes himself, thus his legacy has been left for others...
Marcus Cato Sulla Aemilius Paullus Pompey The Gracchi Marius Julius Caesar Anthony 'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror... The experience is like nothing so...
The biographies collected in this volume bring together Plutarch's Lives of those great men who established the city of Rome and consolidated its supremacy, and his Comparisons...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 448, Editura: Penguin Books, Autor: Plutarch, ISBN-13: 9780140445640, Data emiterii: 1992...
These ten Lives trace 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 biographies...
Presents nine biographies that illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives span the earliest days of the Republic...
Taken from the "Lives", a series of biographies spanning the Graeco-Roman age, this collection describes the twilight of the old Roman Republic from 157-43 BC. Deeply influential on...
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 this remarkable Greek city-state between the...
"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 Shakespeare...
Comprehensive introductions, clear explanatory notes, chronologies, and bibliographies...
Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any fieldThe ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans...
The conclusion to Plutarch's greatest and most ambitious achievement, a surpassing work of biography, history, and moral prescription that contains profiles and comparisons of...
Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A. D. , is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of...
This is the life of Alexander the Great as recounted by the prominent Greek philosopher and historian Plutarch in the first century CE...
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What makes a leader? How does their character affect the fate of their people? Plutarch illustrates the rise and fall of Athens through nine lives, from the legendary days of Theseus,...
An outstanding new edition of Plutarch, the inventor of biography, focused on five lives that remade the Roman world...
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Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 752, Editura: Penguin Books, Autor: Plutarch, ISBN-13: 9780140449167, Data emiterii: 2010...
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