The Rise And Fall of Athens

Publié par Penguin, le 29 février 2024

Résumé

Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal workWhat makes a leader? For Plutarch the answer lay not in great victories, but in moral strengths. In these nine biographies, taken from his Parallel Lives, Plutarch illustrates the rise and fall of Athens through nine lives, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Plutarch ultimately held the weaknesses of its leaders responsible for the city's fall. His work is invaluable for its imaginative reconstruction of the past, and profound insights into human life and achievement. This edition of Ian Scott-Kilvert's seminal translation, fully revised with a new introduction and notes by John Marincola, now also contains Plutarch's attack on the first historian, 'On the Malice of Herodotus'.

Vies Parallèles

Vie de Démosthène (Les Auteurs grecs expliqués d'après une méthode nouvelle par deux traductions françaises)

Extraits des Oeuvres Morales de Plutarque

L'Ami véritable

Les Vies des hommes illustres, Tome II

Erotikos: Dialogue sur l'amour

La sérénité intérieure

Comment tirer profit de ses ennemis

Critiques