The rise and fall of Athens : nine Greek lives : Theseus, Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades, Lysander / by Plutarch ; translated with an introduction by Ian Scott-Kilvert.

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TextLanguage: English Original language: Greek, Modern (1453- ) Series: The Penguin classicsPublisher: Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books, 1984Copyright date: c1960Description: 318 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : maps ; 18 cmUniform titles:

Lives. Selections. English

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Greece -- Biography

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Biographies.

LOC classification:

DE7 P74

Contents:

Introduction -- Thesus -- Solon -- Themistocles -- Aristides -- Cimon -- Pericles

Summary: Writing at the turn of the first century A.D., Plutarch intentionally blended two cultures in his parallel lives of Greek and Roman heroes. The nine biographies chosen for this modern translation by Iaan Scott-Kilvert illustrate the rise and fall of Athens from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, to the age of Pericles and the razing of its walls by Lysander. The volume forms a companion to Plutarch's Fall of the Roman Republic and Makers of Rome (in the Penguin Classics). However readable accounts have necessarily been a prime source of much historical knowledge--from back cover.

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Introduction -- Thesus -- Solon -- Themistocles -- Aristides -- Cimon -- Pericles

Writing at the turn of the first century A.D., Plutarch intentionally blended two cultures in his parallel lives of Greek and Roman heroes. The nine biographies chosen for this modern translation by Iaan Scott-Kilvert illustrate the rise and fall of Athens from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, to the age of Pericles and the razing of its walls by Lysander. The volume forms a companion to Plutarch's Fall of the Roman Republic and Makers of Rome (in the Penguin Classics). However readable accounts have necessarily been a prime source of much historical knowledge--from back cover.

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