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Plutarch's Lives - Vol. V - The Translation Called Drydn's Corrected from the Greek and Revised in Five Volumes (Hardcover)
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Plutarch's Lives - Vol. V - The Translation Called Drydn's Corrected from the Greek and Revised in Five Volumes (Hardcover)
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When the Greek historian PLUTARCH (c. 46 A.D. 120 A.D.) set out to
tell the tales of the famous figures from Greek and Roman history,
he was more concerned with illuminating their characters than
enumerating their deeds, more interested in exploring their moral
failings and triumphs than in listing their conquests. The result:
Plutarch s Lives. Though Plutarch is known to have taken some
liberties with his Lives his comparisons of certain Greek and Roman
figures are often more fanciful than strictly accurate his words
are, in many instances, the only sources of information that have
survived for some personages. And in the aggregate, his radical
approach to biography exerted a profound influence on the
literature to come, particularly throughout the Renaissance and
Enlightenment. Shakespeare lifted some passages verbatim from the
Lives, and other writers inspired by Plutarch range from James
Boswell to Alexander Hamilton to Cotton Mather. Ralph Waldo Emerson
called the Lives a bible for heroes. Across the five volumes,
Plutarch explores the stories of such notables as: Romulus Pericles
Coriolanus Pyrrhus Lysander Pompey Alexander Caesar Cicero Antony
and others. Cosimo is proud to present these handsome new editions,
based on the classic 17th-century translations by English poet and
playwright JOHN DRYDEN (1631 1700), and revised and edited in the
19th century by Oxford scholar ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH (1819 1861).
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