Lives, Volume VI: Dion and Brutus. Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)]

by Plutarch

Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.

Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daughter and four sons. He appears as a man of kindly character and independent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Greek, Ancient (To 1453)
• ISBN: 0674991095
• ISBN13: 9780674991095
• Release Date: January 1918
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.5" x 6.7"