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Title

The rise of Rome : twelve lives / by Plutarch ; translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert, Jeffrey Tatum, and Christopher Pelling ; introduction and notes by Jeffrey Tatum ; with a series preface by Christopher Pelling.

Author

Plutarch

Publication

London : Penguin Books, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Scott-Kilvert, Ian
• Tatum, W. Jeffrey
• Pelling, C. B. R.
• Tatum, W. Jeffrey.

Description

xliv, 784 p. : maps.

Summary

The biographies collected in this volume bring together Plutarch's Lives of those great men who established the city of Rome and consolidated its supremacy, and his Comparisons with their notable Greek counterparts. Here he pairs Romulus, mythical founder of Rome, with Theseus, who brought Athens to power, and compares the admirable Numa and Lycurgus for bringing order to their communities, while Titus Flamininus and Philopoemen are portrayed as champions of freedom. As well as providing an illuminating picture of the first century AD, Plutarch depicts complex and nuanced heroes who display the essential virtues of Greek civilization - courage, patriotism, justice, intelligence and reason - that contributed to the rise of Rome. These new and revised translations by W. Jeffrey Tatum and Ian Scott-Kilvert capture Plutarch's elegant prose and narrative flair. This edition also includes a general introduction, individual introductions to each of the Lives and Comparisons, further reading and notes.

Series Statement

Penguin classics

Uniform Title

Penguin classics

Alternative Title

Twelve lives

Subject

• Plutarch > Translations into English
• Emperors > Rome
• Virtues > Moral and ethical aspects
• Rome > Early works to 1800
• Rome > History > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Early works
• History
• Translations

Note

• Translated from the Ancient Greek.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Romulus -- Numa -- Publicola -- Coriolanus -- Camillus -- Fabius Maximus -- Marcellus -- Aratus -- Philopoemen -- Titus Flamininus -- Elder Cato -- Aemilius Paullus.

ISBN

• 0140449752 (pbk.)
• 9780140449754 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 859393429
• SCSB-11107914

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library