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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE, CONTAINING A LIFE OF PLUTARCH. The collection so well known as Plutarch's Lives, is neither in form nor in arrangement what its author left behind him. To the proper work, the Parallel Lives, narrated in a series of Books, each containing the accounts of one Greek and one Roman, followed by a Comparison, some single lives have been appended, for no reason but that they are also biographies. Otho and Galba belonged, probably, to a series of Roman Emperors from Augustus to Vitellius. Artaxerxes and Aratus the statesman, are detached narratives, like others which once, w are told, existed, Hercules, Aristomenes, Hesiod, Pindar, Dai- phantus, Crates the cynic, and Aratus the poet. In the Parallel Lives themselves there are gaps. There was a Book containing those of Epaminondas and Scipio the younger. Many of the comparisons are wanting, have either been lost, or were not completed. And the reader will notice for himself that references made here and there in the extant hves, show that their original order was different from the present. In the very first page, for example, of the book, in the life of Theseus, mention occurs of the lives of Lycurgue and Numa, as already written. The plain facts of Plutarch's own life may be given in a very short compass. He was born, probably, in the reign of Claudius, about A.d. 45 or 50. His native place was Chaeronea, in Boeotia, where his family had long been settled and was of good standing and local reputation. He studied at Athens under a phi' losopher named Ammonius. He visited Egypt. Later in life, Bome time before A.D. 90, he was at Rome on public business, a deputation, perhaps, from Chaeronea. He continued there long enough to give lectures which attracted attention. Whether he visited Italy once only, or more o...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217845007 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217845002 |
| Weight | 0.94 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.64 In |
| List Price | $22.16 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 286 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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