Plutarch

Broschiertes Buch

The Fall of the Roman Republic

Six Lives

Übersetzer: Warner, Rex

Beschreibung

Taken from the "Lives", a series of biographies spanning the Graeco-Roman age, this collection describes the twilight of the old Roman Republic from 157-43 BC. Deeply influential on Shakespeare and many other later writers, the works explore corruption, decadence, and the struggle for ultimate power.

Autor

Plutarch (c.50-c.120 AD) was a writer and thinker born into a wealthy, established family of Chaeronea in central Greece. His voluminous surviving writings are broadly divided into the 'moral' works and the Parallel Lives of outstanding Greek and Roman leaders. The former (Moralia) are a mixture of rhetorical and antiquarian pieces, together with technical and moral philosophy (sometimes in dialogue form). The Lives have been influential from the Renaissance onwards. Robin Seager is a Reader in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Liverpool and the author of a biography of Pompey. Rex Warner (translator) translated widely from Latin and Greek including, for Penguin, Xenophon, Thucydides and Plutarch.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 132mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9780140449341
• ISBN-10: 0140449345
• Artikelnr.: 22261191