The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives - Brossura

Plutarch

 
9780140441024: The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives
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ISBN 10: 0140441026 ISBN 13: 9780140441024
Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 1960

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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.

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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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Editore
Penguin Classics
Data di pubblicazione
1960
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0140441026
ISBN 13 
9780140441024
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
320
Contatto del produttore
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