Greek Lives

Description

The nine lives in this selection include those of Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, and Alexander. Portraying virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, Plutarch explores with great insight the interplay of character and political action. This new translation is accompanied by a lucid introduction, explanatory notes, bibliographies, maps and indexes.

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About the Author(s)

Plutarch

Table of Contents

Includes:
3 Maps
Appendix on measures of money, weight, capacity, length
Index of Literary and Historical sources cited by Plutarch
Index of Proper Names

Reviews

It is ... a privilege to be offered this sparkling new translation of nine of his Greek Lives by Robin Waterfield. ... It is ... a distinguishing trait of Waterfield's that in the interests of scholarship he will go to endless lengths to find the mot juste; ... the book entirely fulfils the publisher's own criteria for inclusion in the new Oxford World's Classics list, namely to make available 'celebrated writing' in editions equipped with'perceptive commentary and essential back-ground information to meet the changing needs of readers'. To do all that also at a very modest price is an ergon (achievement) indeed. - Paul Cartledge, The Anglo-Hellenic Review

This attractively produced addition to the Oxford World's Classics series. - Daniel Ogden, The Classical Review Vol.XLIX No.2