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Makers of Rome : Nine Lives
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Makers of Rome : Nine Lives Soft cover - 1972

by Plutarch - translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert

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Penguin, 1972, Penguin Classics series, black spine,. 1972. Soft cover. 0140441581 paperback, page edges browned, text clean and sound, cover edges rubbed, single crease on spine, Good condition. ISBN: 0140441581 .
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  • Title Makers of Rome : Nine Lives
  • Author Plutarch - translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert
  • Binding Soft cover
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin, 1972, Penguin Classics series, black spine,, London
  • Date 1972
  • Features Bibliography, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 923320
  • ISBN 9780140441581 / 0140441581
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.79 x 5.14 x 0.7 in (19.79 x 13.06 x 1.78 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Italy
  • Library of Congress subjects Rome, Rome - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 65029726
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Plutarch (c.50-c.120 AD) was a writer and thinker born into a wealthy, established family of Chaeronea in central Greece. He received the best possible education in rhetoric and philosophy, and traveled to Asia Minor and Egypt. Later, a series of visits to Rome and Italy contributed to his fame, which was given official recognition by the emperors Trajan and Hadrian. Plutarch rendered conscientious service to his province and city (where he continued to live), as well as holding a priesthood at nearby Delphi. 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.

About the author

Plutarch's life spanned the second half of the 1st century AD. He was highly educated in rhetoric and philosophy at Athens but his deep interest in religion led him to Delphi, where he was eventually appointed a priesthood. He travelled, most crucially to Rome, where he lectured and made friends of considerable influence. He wrote and taught throughout his life.

Ian Scott-Kilvert was the director of English Literature at the British Council and the editor of Writers and their Works. He has tranlsated three other of Plutarch's works for the Penguin Classics. He died in 1989.

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