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Roman lives : a selection of eight Roman lives /
"In the eight lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures of classical Rome. He portrays virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, but his purpose is also implicitly to educate and warn those in his own day who wielded power. In prose that is rich, elegant...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Griego Antiguo |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In the eight lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures of classical Rome. He portrays virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, but his purpose is also implicitly to educate and warn those in his own day who wielded power. In prose that is rich, elegant, and sprinkled with learned references, he explores with an extraordinary degree of insight the interplay of character and political action. While drawing chiefly on historical sources, he brings to biography a natural storyteller's ear for a good anecdote."--Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxiv, 551 pages) : maps. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xxx-xxxii) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191561306 0191561304 0585370001 9780585370002 |