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Title: The Rise And Fall of Athens
Condition: New
Author: Plutarch
Translator: John Marincola, Ian Scott-Kilvert
Contributor: John Marincola (Translated by), Ian Scott-Kilvert (Translated by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0140449051
EAN: 9780140449051
ISBN: 9780140449051
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Genre: History
Topic: Ancient History
Release Date: 07/09/2023
Description:

Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal work

What makes a leader? For Plutarch the answer lay not in great victories, but in moral strengths. In these nine biographies, taken from his Parallel Lives, Plutarch illustrates the rise and fall of Athens through nine lives, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Plutarch ultimately held the weaknesses of its leaders responsible for the city's fall. His work is invaluable for its imaginative reconstruction of the past, and profound insights into human life and achievement. This edition of Ian Scott-Kilvert's seminal translation, fully revised with a new introduction and notes by John Marincola, now also contains Plutarch's attack on the first historian, 'On the Malice of Herodotus'.

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