Bibliograph

Lives from Plutarch, the modern American edition of twelve lives, edited and abridged, with an introduction, by John W. McFarland [and] Pleasant & Audrey Graves

Type

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Lives from Plutarch, the modern American edition of twelve lives, edited and abridged, with an introduction, by John W. McFarland [and] Pleasant & Audrey Graves

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lives from Plutarch

Oclc number

1445730

Responsibility statement

edited and abridged, with an introduction, by John W. McFarland [and] Pleasant & Audrey Graves

Sub title

the modern American edition of twelve lives

Summary

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of 48 biographies of famous men, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, probably written at the beginning of the second century AD

Table Of Contents

Lycurgus -- Aristides -- Cimon -- Pericles -- Alcibiades -- Alexander -- Coriolanus -- Marcus Cato -- The Gracchi -- Cicero -- Caesar -- Antony

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