The Rise of Rome

ISBN-13: 9780140449754 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 832 str.

Plutarch

Opis

The latest installment in our fully revised edition of Plutarch s Lives of the great men of the ancient world, this volume focusing on early Rome
The biographies collected in this volume bring together Plutarch s Lives of those great men who established the city of Rome, and his Comparisons with their notable Greek counterparts. As well as providing an illuminating picture of the first century A.D., Plutarch depicts complex heroes who display the essential virtues of Greek civilization courage, patriotism, justice, intelligence, and reason that contributed to the rise of Rome.
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Recenzje

Fabulous selection with excellent notes.
--David A. Graf, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Miami

O autorze

Plutarch (c. 45 120 A.D.), the Greek philosopher, lived at the height of the Roman Empire and is author of one of the largest and most important collections of writings to have survived from Classical antiquity.

Ian Scott-Kilvert (1917 1989) was the director of English literature at the British Council and the translator for Penguin Classics of Plutarch s Rise and Fall of Athens and Makers of Rome.

Christopher Pelling is a professor of Greek at Christ Church, University of Oxford.

Jeffrey Tatum is a professor of classics at Victoria University of Wellington.