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vividi e coinvolgenti ritratti di Plutarco degli Spartani e dei loro costumi sono una fonte importante della nostra conoscenza sull'ascesa e la caduta di questa straordinaria città-stato greca tra il VI e il III secolo a.C. Attraverso le sue Vite dei leader di Sparta e la sua registrazione di memorabili Detti Spartani, descrive un popolo che viveva in modo frugale e padroneggiava le proprie emozioni in tutti gli aspetti della vita, che si sbarazzava anche dei bambini malati in un profondo abisso, introduceva un estenuante regime di addestramento militare per i ragazzi e trattava i propri servi brutalmente. Ricco di aneddoti e dettagli, lo scritto di Plutarco dà vita alle personalità e alle conquiste di Sparta con un talento e un'umanità senza pari.

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.

Richard Talbert was born in England in 1947. He was a scholar of The King’s School, Canterbury, and of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he gained a Double First Class Honors in Classics, followed by a doctorate which was the basis of his first book, Timoleon and the Revival of Greek Sicily. After his appointment in 1970 to teach ancient history at Queen’s University, Belfast, his research extended into Roman history and the production of his major work, The Senate of Imperial Rome, which won the Goodwin Award of Merit. He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. After three years as Professor of History at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, in 1988 he moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor. He currently directs an international project to produce what will be the first major classical atlas since the last century.

Christopher Pelling  is professor of classics at Oxford University and a fellow of Christ Church.