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Hellenistic Lives: including Alexander the Great

✍ Scribed by Plutarch

Publisher: OUP Oxford;Oxford University Press
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Weight: 549 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0191641197

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✦ Synopsis

Alexander -- Demosthenes -- Phocion -- Eumenes -- Demetrius -- Pyrrhus -- Aratus -- Agis and Cleomenes -- Philopoemen and Flamininus.;This selection of ten Lives traces the history of Hellenistic Greece from the rise of Macedon and Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire to the arrival of the Romans. Plutarch's biographies of eminent politicians, rulers, and soldiers combine vivid portraits of their subjects with a wealth of historical information; they constitute a uniquely important source for the period.

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