UID:
almafu_9959241415902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (596 pages) :
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ISBN:
9780585370002
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9780191605086
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0-19-160508-5
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9780192825025
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9780199537389
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1-283-23209-X
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9786613232090
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9780191561306
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0-19-156130-4
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0-585-37000-1
Serie:
Oxford world's classics
Originaltitel:
Lives. Selections
Inhalt:
Marcus Cato Sulla Aemilius Paullus, PompeyThe Gracchi MariusJulius Caesar Anthony'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest.'In the eight lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures and periods of classical Rome. He portrays virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, but his purpose is also implicitly to educate and warn those in his own day who wielded power. In prose that is rich, elegant and
Anmerkung:
"First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback, 1999."
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ROMAN LIVES -- Cato the elder -- Aemilius Paullus -- Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus -- Mariuis -- Sulla -- Pompey -- Caesar -- Antony -- Roman money and measures.
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English
Sprache:
Englisch
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