Plutarch's Lives Volume 2
Plutarch; A. H. Clough
- New York John D. Morris & Company 1932
- 428 p.
- the lives of the noble Grecians and Romans 5 Volume Vol. 2 .
Includes Index
Coriolanus -- The comparison of Alcibiades with Coriolanus -- Timoleon -- Æmilius Paulus -- The comparison of Timoleon with Æmilius Paulus -- Pelopidas -- Marcellus -- The comparison of Pelopidas with Marcellus -- Aristides -- Marcus Cato -- The comparison of Aristides with Marcus Cato -- Philopœmen -- Flamininus -- The comparison of Philopœmen with Flamininus -- Pyrrhus -- Caius Marius
Counter 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 published in 1683 in conjunction with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in 1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes and preface are also included in this edition. -- Publisher description.
--Biography--Early works to 1800.--Biography--Early works to 1800