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The Age of Alexander

Autor Plutarch Editat de Timothy Duff Traducere de Ian Scott Kilvert
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 feb 2012
TheParallel Livesof Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen since the Renaissance, most notably Shakespeare. This selection of ten biographies spans the period from the start of the fourth century BC to the early third, and covers some of the most important figures in Greek history, such as the orator Demosthenes and Alexander the Great, as well as lesser known figures such as Plato's pupil Dion of Syracuse. EachLifeis an important work of literature in itself, but taken together they provide a vivid picture of the Greek world during a period that saw the collapse of Spartan power, the rise of Macedonia, the conquests of Alexander and the wars of his successors.

Timothy Duff's revised version of Ian Scott-Kilvert's translations is accompanied by a new general introduction, and introductions and notes to eachLife. He has also added twoLivespreviously not included: Artaxerxes I, Great King of Persia from 405 to 359 BC, and Eumenes of Cardia, one of Alexander's officers.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780140449358
ISBN-10: 0140449353
Pagini: 672
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

PLUTARCH (c. AD 45-120), the Greek philosopher, lived at the height of the Roman Empire and is author of one of the largest and collections of writings to have survived from Classical antiquity. His work is traditionally divided into two: theMoralia, which include a vast range of philosophical, scientific, moral and rhetorical works, and theLivesor biographies. Almost fifty such biographies survive, most from his collection ofParallel Lives, in which biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen are arranged in pairs.

IAN SCOTT-KILVERT was Director of English Literature at the British Council and Editor ofWriters and the Works. He also translated Cassius Dio'sThe Roman Historyas well as Plutarch'sThe Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek LivesandMakers of Romefor Penguin Classics. He died in 1989.

TIMOTHY E. DUFF is Reader in Classics at the University of Reading. He is author ofPlutarch's Lives: Exploring Virtue and Vice(Oxford 1999), and theGreek and Roman Historians(Duckworth 2003) and has published extensively on Plutarch.