Plutarch Greece Rome history politics military 1612 rare book 30 engravings

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class=\"MsoNormal\" class=\"MsoNormal\" class=\"MsoNormal\" Vies desHommes Illustres, Grecs et Romains, comparees l’une avec l’autre par Plutarquede Chaeronee” translatees par M. Jacques Amyot,conseiller du Roi. Tome I. A Paris, chez Jean DuCarroy, MDCXII - 1612. Illustrated. Damaged cover lacking spine. French text. Number ofpages: 1182. Dimensions: 18.5 x 12 x 6.5 cm. Fair condition – some defects thatdo not affect text, binding not firm, loose pages, bookworm holes on final partof the book within text affecting text.

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Plutarch (thennamed, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus) c. 46-120 AD, was aGreek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. Plutarch\'s best-known work is the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, arranged in pairs toilluminate their common moral virtues and vices. The surviving Lives contain 23 pairs, eachwith one Greek Life and one Roman Life, as well as four unpaired single Lives.As is explained in the opening paragraph of his Life of Alexander,Plutarch was not concerned with history so much as the influence of character,good or bad, on the lives and destinies of men. Whereas sometimes he barelytouched on epoch-making events, he devoted much space to charming anecdote andincidental triviality, reasoning that this often said far more for his subjectsthan even their most famous accomplishments. He sought to provide roundedportraits, likening his craft to that of a painter; indeed, he went totremendous lengths (often leading to tenuous comparisons) to draw parallels between physical appearance and moral character. In many ways, he must be counted amongst theearliest moral philosophers. Some of the Lives, such as those of Heracles, Philip II ofMacedon andScipio Africanus, nolonger exist; many of the remaining Lives are truncated, contain obviouslacunae or have been tampered with by later writers. Extant Livesinclude those on Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Pericles, Alcibiades, Nicias, Demosthenes, Pelopidas, Philopoemen, Timoleon, Dion of Syracuse, Alexander theGreat, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Coriolanus, Theseus, Aemilius Paullus, Tiberius Gracchus, Gaius Gracchus, Gaius Marius, Sulla, Sertorius, Lucullus, Pompey, Julius Caesar, Cicero, Cato the Younger, Mark Antony, and Marcus