Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. 2: Translated With Introduction (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

A. O. Prickard

9780265779682: Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. 2: Translated With Introduction (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0265779685 ISBN 13: 9780265779682

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Selected Essays of Plutarch<br/><br/>To four of the dialogues I have With some reluctance prefixed a short running analysis. It is always a pity to antici pate what the author puts clearly before us;l but there is here a real practical difficulty, even for a careful reader, in being sure who is the speaker for the time being; and as he is often introduced by the pronouns I or he no typo graphical device quite serves. The other dialogues seem to explain themselves sufficiently. There is no attempt to supply a commentary; but it is hoped that the full index of proper names (which are very numerous) will enable a reader to dis tinguish those as to whom it is worth his while to inquire further from those who are only of passing interest. I have given here a good many references to other works of Plutarch, but more may usefully be sought, for instance in such an index as is appended to Clough's edition of the Lives....

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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON has written extensively on both ancient Greek and military history; his ?fteen books include The Western Way of War and Between War and Peace. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno.

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