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 subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus and Theseus, Numa and Lycurgus, Fabius and Pericles, and many more powerful figures of ancient Greece and Rome. The present translation, originally...
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 biogr...
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 king -should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.- The Life of Alexander the Great is one of the first surviving attempts to memorialize the achievements of this legendary...
In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexan...
The works of Arthur Clough, a poet whose work both reflected and questioned the values of 19th-century England, are collected in this compilation. With wry, wise tones, these poems explore the tensions of a time of radical change in the religious, political, and literary landscape. The critically acclaimed narrative verse "The Bothie of Tober-Na Vuolich" and the epistolary "Amours de Voyage" are included.
The works of Arthur Clough, a poet whose work both reflected and questioned the values of 19th-century England, are collected in this compilation. Wit...
