Greek Lives

by Plutarch, Robin Waterfield, Philip A. Stadter

Overview

"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."

Here, Plutarch introduces the major figures and periods of classical Greece, detailing the lives of nine personages, including Lycurgus, Solon, Themistocles, Cimon, Alexander, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades, and Agesilaus. Oxford presents the most comprehensive selection available, superbly translated and accompanied by a lucid introduction, explanatory notes, bibliographies, maps, and indexes.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199540051
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/01/2009
Series:	Oxford World's Classics Series
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	528
Sales rank:	130,588
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	1690L (what's this?)
Age Range:	15 - 18 Years

Table of Contents

Includes:3 MapsAppendix on measures of money, weight, capacity, lengthIndex of Literary and Historical sources cited by PlutarchIndex of Proper Names

Editorial Reviews

Nicholas Farrell reads with grace and gravitas this ancient account of Greek figures. Plutarch, a Greek writer of the first and early second centuries C.E., authored PARALLEL LIVES OF GREEK AND ROMANS, containing 46 biographical portraits of significant Greeks and Romans. This audiobook presents lives of eight prominent Greeks (Lycurgus, Themistocles, Pericles, Alcibiades, Lysander, Alexander, Demosthenes, and Pyrrhus) in chronological order. The text is formal as it is an 1864 revision of an English translation from the 1780s, but Farrell handles it well, never faltering on rarely used words and unfamiliar syntax. M.L.C. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine

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