Rome in Crisis
Autor Plutarch Traducere de Christopher Pelling, Ian Scott Kilverten Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2010
Ian Scott-Kilvert's and Christopher Pelling's translations are accompanied by a new introduction, and also includes a separate introduction for each biography, comparative essays of the major figures, suggested further reading, notes and maps.
Rome in Crisisjoins Penguin Classics' complete revised Plutarch in six volumes. Other titles includeOn Sparta,Fall of the Roman Republic,The Rise of Rome(forthcoming 2013) andThe Rise and Fall of Athens(forthcoming 2014).
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780140449167
ISBN-10: 0140449167
Pagini: 752
Dimensiuni: 133 x 199 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0140449167
Pagini: 752
Dimensiuni: 133 x 199 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
PLUTARCH
(c.
50
-c.120
AD)
was
a
Greek
writer
and
thinker.
He
received
the
best
possible
education
in
rhetoric
and
philosophy,
and
travelled
to
Asia
Minor
and
Egypt.
Later,
a
series
of
visits
to
Rome
and
Italy
contributed
to
his
fame,
and
it
was
said
that
he
had
received
official
recognition
by
the
emperors
Trajan
and
Hadrian.
His
voluminous
surviving
writings
are
broadly
divided
into
the
'moral'
works
and
theLivesof
outstanding
Greek
and
Roman
leaders.
IAN SCOTT-KILVERTwas Director of English Literature at the British Council and Editor ofWriters and Their Works.For the Penguin Classics, he translated Plutarch'sMakers of Rome,The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek LivesandThe Age of Alexander, and Cassius Dio'sThe Roman History.He died in 1989.
CHRISTOPHER PELLING is Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University. He published a commentary on Plutarch'sLife of Antonyin 1988 (Cambridge University Press) and most of his articles on Plutarch are collected in hisPlutarch and History(Classical Press of Wales and Duckworth, 2002).
IAN SCOTT-KILVERTwas Director of English Literature at the British Council and Editor ofWriters and Their Works.For the Penguin Classics, he translated Plutarch'sMakers of Rome,The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek LivesandThe Age of Alexander, and Cassius Dio'sThe Roman History.He died in 1989.
CHRISTOPHER PELLING is Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University. He published a commentary on Plutarch'sLife of Antonyin 1988 (Cambridge University Press) and most of his articles on Plutarch are collected in hisPlutarch and History(Classical Press of Wales and Duckworth, 2002).