In this superb selection from Plutarch's famed biographies of ancient historical figures, the reader meets the major figures and periods of classical Greece, as embodied in the lives of nine men--Lycurgus, Solon, Themistocles, Cimon, Alexander, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades, and Agesilaus. The book is superbly translated by Robin Waterfield and features a lucid introduction, explanatory notes, bibliographies, maps, and indexes.
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In this superb selection from Plutarch's famed biographies of ancient historical figures, the reader meets the major figures and periods of classical Greece, as embodied in the lives of nine men--Lycurgus, Solon, Themistocles, Cimon, Alexander, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades, and Agesilaus. The book is superbly translated by Robin Waterfield and features a lucid introduction, explanatory notes, bibliographies, maps, and indexes.
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Robin Waterfield's scope of Plutarch's massive Parallel Lives (an ancient Greek personality coupled with a Roman) is about the better known Greek politicians in Hellenic history, ranging from the mythical Lycurgus of Sparta, semi-legendary Solon of Athens, and the Athenian Themistocles and Cimon during the epoch-turning Persian Wars and the Peloponnessian War Athenians Pericles and Alcibiades, the Spartan Agesilaus and Alexander the Great of Macedon. Buy also the Roman Lives by the same editor to complete this Oxford Classics selection.