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The Lives Anthology
The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives
Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
The Rise and Fall of Athens
1. THESESU
2. SOLON
3. THEMISTOCLES
4. ARISTIDE
5. CIMON
6. PERICLES
7. NICIAS
8. ALCIBIADES
9. LYSANDER
MAPS
The Aegean
Mainland Greece
The Age of Alexander
Title Page
Contents
About the Author
Penguin Plutarch
Preface to the Revised Edition
Abbreviations
General Introduction
List of Surviving Lives by Plutarch
Further Reading
The Age of Alexander
ARTAXERXES
Introduction to Artaxerxes
Life of Artaxerxes
PELOPIDAS
Introduction to Pelopidas
Prologue to the Lives of Pelopidas and Marcellus
Life of Pelopidas
DION
Introduction to Dion
Prologue to the Lives of Dion and Brutus
Life of Dion
TIMOLEON
Introduction to Timoleon
Life of Timoleon
Comparison of Aemilius and Timoleon
DEMOSTHENES
Introduction to Demosthenes
Prologue to the Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero
Life of Demosthenes
PHOCION
Introduction to Phocion
Prologue to the Lives of Phocion and Cato the Younger
Life of Phocion
ALEXANDER
Introduction to Alexander
Prologue to the Lives of Alexander and Julius Caesar
Life of Alexander
EUMENES
Introduction to Eumenes
Life of Eumenes
Comparison of Sertorius and Eumenes
DEMETRIUS
Introduction to Demetrius
Prologue to the Lives of Demetrius and Antony
Life of Demetrius
PYRRHUS
Introduction to Pyrrhus
Life of Pyrrhus
Notes
Chronology
Historical Events After the Death of Alexander (323–301 BC)
Biographical Notes on Alexander’s Generals and Successors
Maps
The New Penguin Plutarch
Penguin Story
Copyright Page
The Age of Caesar
Cover
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Maps
The Roman Empire in the Time of Julius Caesar
Rome in the Time of Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar’s Campaigns in Gaul
Movements of Julius Caesar in his Campaigns against Pompey and the Senatorial Forces
Movements of Octavian and Antony against Brutus and Cassius (43-42 BCE), and of Octavian against Antony (31-30 BCE)
Plutarch: Five Roman Lives
Pompey
Caesar
Cicero
Brutus
Antony
Appendix: The Roman Constitution
Acknowledgments
Index
Also by James Romm
Copyright
Plutarch The Moralia
MORALIA
CONTENTS
BOOK I
On the education of children
How the young man should study poetry
On listening to lectures
How to tell a flatterer from a friend
How a man may become aware of his progress in virtue
BOOK II
How to profit by one’s enemies
On having many friends
On Fortune
Virtue and Vice
Letter of condolence to Apollonius
Advice about keeping well
Advice to bride and groom
Dinner of the seven wise men
Superstition
BOOK III
Sayings of kings and commanders
Sayings of Spartans
The ancient customs of the Spartans
Sayings of Spartan women
Bravery of women
BOOK IV
Roman questions
Greek questions
Greek and Roman parallel stories
On the fortune of the Romans
On the fortune or the virtue of Alexander
Were the Athenians more famous in war or in wisdom?
BOOK V
Isis and Osiris
The E at Delphi
Oracles at Delphi no longer given in verse
The obsolescence of oracles
BOOK VI
Can virtue be taught?
On moral virtue
On the control of anger
On tranquillity of mind
On brotherly love - De fraterno amore
On affection for offspring
Whether vice is sufficient to cause unhappiness
Whether affections of the soul are worse than those of the body
On talkativeness
On being a busybody
BOOK VII
Consolation to his wife
On exile
On the sign of Socrates
On fate
On the delays of divine vengeance
On praising oneself inoffensively
On envy and hate
On compliancy
On love of wealth
BOOK VIII
Table talk
CONTENTS
Book I.
Book II.
Book III
Book IV.
Book V.
Book VI.
Book VII.
Book VIII.
Book IX
BOOK IX
Dialogue on love
BOOK X
Love stories
A philosopher ought to converse especially with men in power
To an uneducated ruler
Whether an old man should engage in public affairs
Precepts of statecraft
On monarchy, democracy and oligarchy
That we ought not to borrow
Lives of the ten orators
Comparison between Aristophanes and Menander
BOOK XI
On the malice of Herodotus
On the opinions of the philosophers
CONTENTS
Book I.
Book II.
Book III.
Book IV.
Book V.
Causes of natural phenomena
BOOK XII
On the face which appears in the orb of the moon
On the principle of cold
Whether fire or water is more useful
Whether land or sea animals are cleverer
Beasts are rational
On the eating of flesh
BOOK XIII
Platonic questions
On the birth of the spirit in Timaeus
Summary of the birth of the spirit
On Stoic self-contradictions
The Stoics speak more paradoxically than the poets
Against the Stoics, on common conceptions
BOOK XIV
That Epicurus actually makes a pleasant life impossible
Reply to Colotes, in defence of other philosophers - Adversus Colotem
Is “live unknown” a wise precept?
On music
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