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Plutarch's Lives, The Complete 48 Biographies (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
Av Plutarch
Inbunden, 2021
880 kr
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Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans , commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives , is a series of 48 biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, probably written at the beginning of the second century AD. The work includes …
Greek Lives
Av Plutarch, Philip A. Stadter
Häftad, 2008
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158 kr
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Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander`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.' …
Roman Lives
A Selection of Eight Lives
Av Plutarch, Philip A. Stadter
Häftad, 2008
182 kr
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Marcus CatoSullaAemilius PaullusPompeyThe GracchiMariusJulius CaesarAnthony'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.'In the eight …
Age of Alexander
Av Plutarch, Timothy Duff
Häftad, 2012
192 kr
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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. This selection of ten biographies spans the period from the start of the fourth century BC to the early third, and …
Hellenistic Lives
including Alexander the Great
Av Plutarch
Häftad, 2016
176 kr
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Alexander * Demosthenes * Phocion * Eumenes * Demetrius * Pyrrhus * Agis and Cleomenes * Aratus * Philopoemen * FlamininusThis selection of ten Lives traces 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 Lives, Volume 1
The Dryden Translation
Av Plutarch, Arthur Hugh Clough
Häftad, 2001
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219 kr
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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 all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his …
How to Listen
An Ancient Guide to Learning from Others
Inbunden, 2026
177 kr
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A lively new translation of Plutarch’s charming and timeless essay on how to be a good listener—and why listening is essential to learning and living wellListening is a skill—even an art—and it’s essential to learning and to life. Indeed, as Plutarch writes in How to Listen, “listening well is the …
Essays
Häftad, 1992
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249 kr
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One of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world, Plutarch (c. AD 46 -120) 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 …
Complete Essays of Plutarch (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
Av Plutarch
Inbunden, 2021
503 kr
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Moralia, Volume III
Sayings of Kings and Commanders. Sayings of Romans. Sayings of Spartans. The Ancient Customs of the Spartans. Sayings of Spartan Women. Bravery of Women
Av Plutarch
Inbunden, 1931
373 kr
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Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.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 …
On Sparta
Av Plutarch
E-bok, 2005
108 kr
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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 sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta's leaders and his recording of memorable Spartan Sayings he …
Parallel Lives Vol. 1 - Classical Biographies of Greek and Roman Lives
Av Plutarch
Häftad, 2012
275 kr
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Moralia, Volume XIII
Part II: Stoic Essays
Av Plutarch
Inbunden, 1976
373 kr
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Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.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 …
Rise of Rome
Av Plutarch
Häftad, 2013
214 kr
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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 with their notable Greek counterparts. Here he pairs Romulus, mythical founder of Rome, with Theseus, who brought Athens …
Fall of the Roman Republic
Av Plutarch, Robin Seager
Häftad, 2006
179 kr
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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 …
Rise And Fall of Athens
Av Plutarch
Häftad, 2023
191 kr
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Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal workWhat makes a leader? For Plutarch the answer lay not in great victories, but in moral strengths. In these nine biographies, taken from his Parallel Lives, …
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2
Av Plutarch, Arthur Hugh Clough
Häftad, 2001
204 kr
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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 all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his …
How to Lead When Men Fail
An Ancient Guide to Women’s Leadership
Av Plutarch, Mallory Monaco Caterine
Inbunden, 2027
177 kr
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A lively new translation of Plutarch’s The Excellence of Women, a remarkable collection of stories about brave and clever female leaders in ancient Greece, Rome, Persia, and North AfricaIn times of peace, the women of the ancient Mediterranean had few chances to exercise leadership. But when …
Age of Alexander
Av Plutarch
E-bok, 2012
136 kr
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Plutarch's parallel biographies of the great men in Greek and Roman history are cornerstones of European literature, drawn on by writers and statesmen since the Renaissance, most notably by Shakespeare. This selection provides intimate glimpses into the lives of these men, depicting, as he put it, …
How to Be a Leader
An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership
Inbunden, 2019
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177 kr
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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 he profiled in his famous—and massive—Lives, including politicians and generals such as Pericles, Alexander the …
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2
Av Plutarch, Arthur Hugh Clough
E-bok, 2011
192 kr
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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 all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his …
Makers of Rome
Av Plutarch
Häftad, 2004
165 kr
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These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's Roman Lives, they include prominent figures who achieved fame for …
Age of Caesar
Five Roman Lives
Av Plutarch, James Romm
Inbunden, 2017
358 kr
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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 …
Plutarch's Lives
Volume I - Complete with Notes (Hardcover)
Av Plutarch, George Long m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
511 kr
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Plutarch's Lives
Vol. I - The Translation Called Dryden's Corrected from the Greek and Revised in Five Volumes
Av Plutarch, A H Clough
Inbunden, 2013
505 kr
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Moralia, Volume I
The Education of Children. How the Young Man Should Study Poetry. On Listening to Lectures. How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend. How a Man May Become Aware of His Progress in Virtue
Inbunden, 2026
373 kr
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Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45–120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia, in central Greece. He is renowned for his forty-six Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs (in each pair, one Greek figure and one …
Life of Alexander the Great
Av Plutarch, Arthur Hugh Clough
E-bok, 2004
158 kr
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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, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander’s prediction that the new …
Life of Alexander
From Parallel Lives
Av Plutarch
Inbunden, 2025
183 kr
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Among the many remarkable personalities that emerged in Ancient Greece, none has exerted as lively a fascination as that of Alexander III (356–323 BCE), king of Macedon, most commonly known as Alexander the Great. He was called ‘the Great’ for the breadth of his conquests, the young age at which he …
Roman Lives
A Selection of Eight Lives
Av Plutarch, Philip A. Stadter
E-bok, 1999
119 kr
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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 much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest.'' In …
