Plutarch's Lives 1
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781406567342 (1406567345)
Publish date: January 1st 2008
Publisher: Dodo Press
Pages no: 404
Edition language: English
Dense. And not a lot of fun.Plutarch, a Greek in the first century A.D. who later became a Roman citizen, drafted his Lives as a moral inquiry. He selected from history a well-known Greek and a well-known Roman and wrote briefly on each. He then concludes with a couple pages comparing their lives...