| #69195 in Books | 2009-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.00 x.90 x7.60l,.79 | File type: PDF | 483 pages||5 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Awesome reading|By Raymond Goulet|Excellently translated and easy to read and understand the lives of ancient Greeks. Highly recommend for anyone wanting to study antiquity|0 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Serves it's purpose|By Customer|I needed this book for a summer class and it was a pretty good read. Ch||`It is ... a privilege to be offered this sparkling new translation of nine of his Greek Lives by Robin Waterfield. ... It is ... a distinguishing trait of Waterfield's that in the interests of scholarship he will go to endless lengths to find the mot juste; .
"I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest."
Here, Plutarch introduces the major figures and periods of classical Greece, detailing the lives of nine personages, including Lycurgus, Solon, Themistocles, Cimon, Alexander, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades, and Agesilaus. Oxford presents the ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Greek Lives (Oxford World's Classics) | Plutarch. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
