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  • Published: 25 July 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241326961
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 832

The Rise of Rome




A fully revised edition of Plutarch's Lives of the great men of the ancient world, focussing on early Rome

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.

  • Published: 25 July 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241326961
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 832

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About the author

Plutarch

Plutarch (AD 45?- AD 120) was an Greek essayist, biographer, philosopher, historian, and moralist. In his lifetime, he traveled in Egypt and Italy, visited Rome and Athens, and became a priest of the temple of Delphi. Plutarch is most famous writing for THE PARALLEL LIVES, comprised of 46 surviving biographies arranged in pairs (one Greek life with one comparable Roman life) and four single biographies.

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