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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1: The Dryden Translation Paperback - 2001
by Plutarch; Arthur Hugh Clough (Editor); Introduction by James Atlas
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As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect, that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, unapproachable bogs, Scythian ice, or a frozen sea, so in this work of mine, in which I have compared the lives of the greatest men with another, after passing through those periods which probable reasoning can reach to and real history find a footing in, I might very well say of those that are farther off: "Beyond this there is nothing but prodigies and fictions, the only inhabitants are the poets and inventors of fables; there is no credit, or certainty any farther."
From the jacket flap
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.
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- Title Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1: The Dryden Translation
- Author Plutarch; Arthur Hugh Clough (Editor); Introduction by James Atlas
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Modern Library P
- Pages 816
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Modern Library, New York
- Date 2001-04-10
- Features Index
- ISBN 9780375756764 / 0375756760
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5 x 1.4 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 3.56 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Greece
- Theometrics: Secular
- Library of Congress subjects Greece, Rome
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00068388
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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