Plutarch’s Lives: Life of Pyrrhus Plutarch’s Lives: Life of Pyrrhus

Plutarch’s Lives: Life of Pyrrhus

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*Illustrated

*Includes Table of Contents



Plutarch's best-known work is the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues and vices. The surviving Lives contain 23 pairs, each with one Greek Life and one Roman Life, as well as four unpaired single Lives. Some of the Lives, such as those of Heracles, Philip II of Macedon and Scipio Africanus, no longer exist; many of the remaining Lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae or have been tampered with by later writers. Extant Lives include those on Aristides, Pericles, Pompey, Julius Caesar, Cicero, Cato the Younger, Mark Antony, and Marcus Junius Brutus.

Plutarch also wrote a series of biographies, including the biographies of Demetrius, Pyrrhus, Agis and Cleomenes, Aratus and Artaxerxes, Philopoemen, Camillus, Marcellus, Flamininus, Aemilius Paulus, Galba and Otho. 

Pyrrhus, of course, is best known for his Pyrrhic Victory, the kind history has given to a victory that ultimately gained the winner nothing. This edition of Plutarch's Life of Pyrrhus includes pictures and a Table of Contents

GENRE
Biography
RELEASED
2012
4 June
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
30
Pages
PUBLISHER
Charles River Editors
SIZE
676.9
KB

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