Plutarch
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 393 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An outstanding new edition of Plutarch, the inventor of biography, focused on five lives that remade the Roman world. Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names still resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, they haunt us with questions of character and authority: how to safeguard a republic from the flaws of its leaders. Plutarch's rich, vivid profiles show character shaping...
Author
Series
Great ideas of the Western world volume 13
Pub. Date
[1990]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 897 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 384 pages ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The philosopher, statesman, and moralist Plutarch of Chaeronia (first and early second centuries CE) begins his essay Political Advice, wherein he advises a man about how to embark upon a career in government and how to become an effective leader by saying: 'First of all, let the primary motivation for political activity be a conscious choice based on judgment and reason, which serves as a firm and strong foundation, and let the choice not be rashly...