PLUTARCH'S LIVES; Volume I: Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola

Plutarch; Bernadotte Perrin

ISBN 10: 0674990528 / ISBN 13: 9780674990524

Published by Harvard University Press & William Heinemann, 2010

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Underlining in pencil to a few pages. Light edgewear to DJ. Later reprint (2010s? ); Loeb Classical Library No. 46; 1; 608 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PLUTARCH'S LIVES; Volume I: Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola
• Publisher: Harvard University Press & William Heinemann
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674990528
• ISBN 13: 9780674990524
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Loeb Classical Library
  • Greek Literature

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Synopsis

Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.

Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45–120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daughter and four sons. He appears as a man of kindly character and independent thought, studious and learned.

Plutarch wrote on many subjects. Most popular have always been the forty-six Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs (in each pair, one Greek figure and one similar Roman), though the last four lives are single. All are invaluable sources of our knowledge of the lives and characters of Greek and Roman statesmen, soldiers, and orators. Plutarch’s many other varied extant works, about sixty in number, are known as Moralia or Moral Essays. They are of high literary value, besides being of great use to people interested in philosophy, ethics, and religion.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of the Lives is in eleven volumes.

About the Author

Bernadotte Perrin (1847–1920) was Lampson Professor of Greek Literature and History at Yale University.