Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the secondcentury A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world byone of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In whatis by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch revealsthe character and personality of his subjects and how they ledultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full ofdetail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus andTheseus, Numa and Lycurgus, Fabius and Pericles, and many morepowerful figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
The present translation, originally published in 1683 inconjunction with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes andpreface are also included in this edition.
【作者简介】
James Atlas is the author of Bellow: A Biography and isthe general editor of the Penguin Lives series. He lives inNew York City.
【目录】
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
INTRODUCTION BYJAMES ATLAS
PREFACE BYARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH
SERTORIUS
EUMENES
THE COMPARISON OF SERTORIUS WITH EUMENES
AGESILAUS
POMPEY
THz COMPARISON OF PoMPEY WITH AGESILAUS
ALEXANDER'
CAESAR
PHOCION
CATO THEYoUNGER
AGIS
CLEOMENES
"IiBERIUS GRACCHUS
CAIUS GRACCHUS
THz COMPARISON OF"IiBERIUS"AND CAIUS GRACCHUS WITH
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