Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4)
by Plutarch
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Most of what is known of the ancient world comes from the accounts of antiquity's own historians.Ancient history is the aggregate of past events from the beginning of writing and recorded human history and extending as far as post-classical history.Historians have two major ways of understanding the ancient archaeology and the study of source texts. Primary sources are those sources closest to the origin of the information or idea under study.Some of the more notable ancient writers include Herodotus, Thucydides, Arrian, Plutarch, Polybius, Livy, Josephus, Suetonius, and Tacitus.This three-vol...
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- PLUTARCH'S LIVES.
- Translated from the Greek. WITH NOTES AND A LIFE OF PLUTARCH. BY
- AUBREY STEWART, M.A.,
- AND THE LATE
- GEORGE LONG, M.A.,
- VOL. I.
- CONTENTS.
- PREFACE.
- PREFACE TO THE CIVIL WARS OF ROME. [1]
- LIFE OF PLUTARCH.
- PLUTARCH'S LIVES.
- LIFE OF THESEUS.
- LIFE OF ROMULUS.
- COMPARISON OF THESEUS AND ROMULUS.
- LIFE OF LYKURGUS.
- LIFE OF NUMA.
- COMPARISON OF NUMA WITH LYKURGUS.
- LIFE OF SOLON.
- LIFE OF POPLICOLA.
- COMPARISON OF SOLON AND POPLICOLA.
- LIFE OF THEMISTOKLES.
- LIFE OF CAMILLUS.
- LIFE OF PERIKLES.
- LIFE OF FABIUS MAXIMUS.
- COMPARISON OF PERIKLES AND FABIUS MAXIMUS.
- LIFE OF ALKIBIADES.
- LIFE OF CAIUS MARCIUS CORIOLANUS.
- COMPARISON OF ALKIBIADES AND CORIOLANUS.
- LIFE OF TIMOLEON.
- LIFE OF AEMILIUS.
- COMPARISON OF PAULUS AEMILIUS AND TIMOLEON.
- FOOTNOTES
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