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MAKERS OF ROME - NINE LIVES - PENGUIN CLASSICS
by PLUTARCH translated by SCOTT - KILVERT, IAN
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Plutarch (c.50-c.120 AD) was a writer and thinker born into a wealthy, established family of Chaeronea in central Greece. He received the best possible education in rhetoric and philosophy, and traveled to Asia Minor and Egypt. Later, a series of visits to Rome and Italy contributed to his fame, which was given official recognition by the emperors Trajan and Hadrian. Plutarch rendered conscientious service to his province and city (where he continued to live), as well as holding a priesthood at nearby Delphi. His voluminous surviving writings are broadly divided into the ‘moral’ works and the Parallel Lives of outstanding Greek and Roman leaders. The former ( Moralia ) are a mixture of rhetorical and antiquarian pieces, together with technical and moral philosophy (sometimes in dialogue form). The Lives have been influential from the Renaissance onwards.
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- MAKERS OF ROME - NINE LIVES - PENGUIN CLASSICS
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- PLUTARCH translated by SCOTT - KILVERT, IAN
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- Penguin Books, London, c. 2005
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- plutarch greece rome history biography penguin classics
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