Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. The most comprehensive selection available, it isĪccompanied by a lucid introduction, explanatory notes, bibliographies, maps and indexes.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. This new translation will introduce new generations to his urbane erudition. Throughout the ages Plutarch's Lives have been valued for their historical value and their charm. While drawing chiefly on historical sources, heīrings to biography a natural story-teller's ear for a good anecdote. In prose that is rich, elegant and sprinkled with learned references, he explores with an extraordinary degree of insight the interplay of character and political action. 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 the eight lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures and periods of classical Rome. '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.'

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