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Plutarch: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I

Clough, A. H., Plutarch

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Plutarch: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I

Written at the beginning of the second century A.D., it forms a brilliant social history of the ancient world. Plutarch was a man of immense erudition who had traveled widely throughout the Roman Empire, and the Lives are richly anecdotal and full of detail.

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Title of ebook: Plutarch: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I
ISBN: 9780679641742
Publisher: Random House
Internet download file size: 1607 kb
Released online for download: 10-23-2000
Author of eBook: Clough, A. H.
Editor: Clough, Arthur Hugh
Author of eBook: Plutarch

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As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect, that beyond this lies nothing but the sandy deserts full of wild beasts, unapproachable bogs, Scythian ice, or a frozen sea, so in this work of mine, in which I have compared the lives of the greatest men with one another, after passing through those periods which probable reasoning can reach to and real history find a footing in, I might very well say of those that are farther off: "Beyond this there is nothing but prodigies and fictions, the only inhabitants are the poets and inventors of fables; there is no credit, or certainty any farther." Yet, after publishing an account of Lycurgus the lawgiver and Numa the king, I thought I might ... read full excerpt from Plutarch: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I ebook