Plutarch's Lives: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Vol. 1 (Modern Library Giant, 5.1)
Format: hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library
Pages no: 1309
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...