Plutarch on Sparta (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Plutarch

 
9780140444636: Plutarch on Sparta (Penguin Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140444637 ISBN 13: 9780140444636
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta's leaders and his recording of memorable Spartan Sayings he depicts a people who lived frugally and mastered their emotions in all aspects of life, who also disposed of unhealthy babies in a deep chasm, introduced a gruelling regime of military training for boys, and treated their serfs brutally. Rich in anecdote and detail, Plutarch's writing brings to life the personalities and achievements of Sparta with unparalleled flair and humanity.

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Plutarch (c. AD 45-120), the Greek philosopher, lived at the height of the Roman Empire and is author of one of the largest and collections of writings to have survived from Classical antiquity. His work is traditionally divided into two: the Moralia, which include a vast range of philosophical, scientific, moral and rhetorical works, and the Lives or biographies. Almost fifty such biographies survive, most from his collection of Parallel Lives, in which biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen are arranged in pairs.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1988
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140444637
ISBN 13 
9780140444636
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
Herausgeber
Talbert Richard
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