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Alexander by Plutarch
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Inspired in his leadership, fearless in battle, and boundless in his ambition, Alexander the Great inherited his father's empire at the age of 20 and resolved to expand it. By the time of his death at 32, his empire covered most of the known world - from Greece to India - and comprised 2 million square ...Show more
Fall Of The Roman Republic by Plutarch
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: good
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 Graeco-Roman age ...Show more
Fall of the Roman Republic - Six Lives by Plutarch by Plutarch
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
This collection illuminates the twilight of the old Roman Republic. It describes the would-be dictators of Crassus and Spartacus, the death of political idealist Cato, Julius Caesar'S triumph in Gaul, the elegant oratory of Cicero and more, giving an insight into an empire wrecked by political divisions ...Show more
How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide T.. by Plutarch; Jeffrey Beneker; Plutarch Plutarch
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Category: Classics | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any field The 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 Gre ...Show more
In Consolation to His Wife (Penguin "Great Ideas" Series) by Plutarch
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
From an intimate and moving letter to his grieving wife on the death of their daughter, to elegant writings on morality, happiness and the avoidance of anger, Plutarch's powerful words of consolation and inspiration still offer timeless wisdom and guidance today. Throughout history, some books have chan ...Show more
MOD LIB THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER THE GRE by PLUTARCH
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
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, ful?lling the soothsayer Aristander's prediction that the new king ...Show more
On Sparta by Plutarch
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
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 their 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 de ...Show more
PLUTARCH S LIVES Vol 2 by Plutarch
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
Offers biographies of Greek and Roman leaders and compares their personal qualities and accomplishments.
PLUTARCH'S LIVES VOL 1 by Plutarch
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
The brilliant social history of the Greek and Roman world, "Lives" is Plutarch's best known work, translated by Dryden. It is edited with a foreword by Arthur Hugh Clough and a new introduction by James Atlas.
Rise and Fall of Athens by PLUTARCH
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading pu ...Show more
Rome in Crisis by Plutarch; Christopher Pelling (Translator, Introduction by, Notes by); Ian Scott-Kilvert (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Bringing together nine biographies from Plutarch's Parallel Lives series, this edition examines the lives of major figures in Roman history, from Lucullus (118-57 BC), an aristocratic politician and conqueror of Eastern kingdoms, to Otho (32-69 AD), a reckless young noble who consorted with the tyrannic ...Show more
The Age of Alexander by Plutarch
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Category: Classics
Vivid biographies of famous characters from the Ancient Greek world, in a revised edition of Ian Scott-Kilvert's seminal translation 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 S ...Show more