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Author Plutarch.

Title Selected lives and essays / Plutarch ; translated from the Greek by Louise Ropes Loomis ; with an introd. by Edith Hamilton.

Publication Info. Roslyn, N.Y. : Published for the Classics Club by W.J. Black, [1951]
©1951

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Location Call No. Status
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  180 PLUTARCHUS  V.1 & 2    Check Shelf
Description 2 volumes in 1 : maps ; 20 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction / Edith Hamilton -- Translator's note / Louise Ropes Loomis -- Lives. Lycurgus -- Numa Pompilius -- Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa -- Themistocles -- Camillus -- Pericles -- Fabius Maximus -- Comparison of Pericles and Fabius -- Alcibiades -- Gaius Marcius Coriolanus -- Comparison of Alcibiades and Coriolanus -- Demosthenes -- Cicero -- Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero -- Alexander -- Caesar -- Demetrius -- Antony -- Comparison of Demetrius and Antony -- Cato the Younger -- Essays. Rules for husband and wife -- Letter of consolation to his wife -- Topics for banquets (symposiacs) -- The eating of meat -- Peace of mind -- Exile -- Superstition -- The tardiness of God's punishments -- The passing of the oracles -- Isis and Osiris.
Subject Greece -- Biography.
Rome -- Biography.
Added Title Selections. English. 1951
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