| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiv, 551 pages) : maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Oxford world's classics
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxx-xxxii) and index. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Contents |
Cato the Elder -- Aemilius Paullus -- Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus -- Marius -- Sulla -- Pompey -- Caesar -- Antony. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Statesmen -- Rome -- Biography.
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Generals -- Rome -- Biography.
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Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C.
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Rome -- Biography.
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Rome (Empire) |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Chronological Term |
265-30 B.C |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Stadter, Philip A.
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Waterfield, Robin, 1952-
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| Added Title |
Lives. Selections. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83013297
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Plutarch. Lives. English. Selections. Roman lives. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 019282502X (DLC) 00269516 (OCoLC)41834016 |
| ISBN |
9780191561306 (electronic book) |
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0191561304 (electronic book) |
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0585370001 (electronic book) |
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9780585370002 (electronic book) |
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019282502X |
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9780192825025 |
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