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The Rise and Fall of Athens

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780140441024

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 223g

  • RRP: £10.99

The Rise and Fall of Athens

  • Nine Greek Lives

  • Plutarch

  • Ian Scott-Kilvert (Introducer)

  • Ian Scott-Kilvert (Translator)

Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780140441024

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 223g

  • RRP: £10.99

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Plutarch

Plutarch (c.50-c.120 AD) was a writer and thinker born into a wealthy, established family of Chaeronea in central Greece. His voluminous surviving writings are broadly divided into the 'moral' works and the Parallel Lives of outstanding Greek and Roman leaders. The former (Moralia) are a mixture of rhetorical and antiquarian pieces, together with technical and moral philosophy (sometimes in dialogue form). The Lives have been influential from the Renaissance onwards. Robin Seager is a Reader in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Liverpool and the author of a biography of Pompey. Rex Warner (translator) translated widely from Latin and Greek including, for Penguin, Xenophon, Thucydides and Plutarch.

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