The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives

Scott-Kilvert, Ian,Plutarch

ISBN 10: 0140441026 / ISBN 13: 9780140441024

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1960

Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers mon0000243313

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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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: 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: the Moralia, which include a vast range of philosophical, scientific, moral and rhetorical works, and the Lives or biographies. Almost fifty such biographies survive, most from his collection of Parallel Lives, in which biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen are arranged in pairs.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives
Verlag: Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum: 1960
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Good