The Rise and Fall of Athens – Plutarch

S$74.00

The Rise and Fall of Athens – Plutarch

S$74.00

Title: The Rise and Fall of Athens
Author: Plutarch, Ian Scott-Kilvert (trans), Raymond Hawthorn (illus)
Publisher: The Folio Society, 1967
Condition: Hardcover, in slipcase. Except for slight bump to corner of book, like new.

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About the book:

Contents:

Introduction

Solon

Themistocles

Aristides

Cimon

Pericles

Nicias

Alcibiades

Lysander

Appendix I: Marathon

Appendix II: Salamis

Appendix III: Plataea

Appendix IV: The Syracusan Expedition

About Plutarch:

Plutarch, born Plutarchos (Greek: Πλούταρχος) then named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Μέστριος Πλούταρχος), c. 46 – 120 CE, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi.