Plutarch's Lives, Volume I
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781770456068 (1770456066)
Publish date: March 7th 2010
Publisher: General Books
Pages no: 298
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...