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  • How to Listen

    An Ancient Guide to Learning from Others

    by Plutarch, Jeffrey Beneker ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    A lively new translation of Plutarch’s charming and timeless essay on how to be a good listener—and why listening is essential to learning and living wellListening is a skill—even an art—and it’s essential to learning and to life. Indeed, as Plutarch writes in How to Listen, “listening well is the foundation for living well.” In this volume, Jeffrey Beneker presents a vivid and accessible new ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • Morals

    by Plutarch ...
    Plutarch was a man of letters of unlimited curiosity; his overall subject, worked out across innumerable essays, dialogues, letters, speeches, and stories, is nothing less than life itself. As such, he provides an invaluable glimpse into a full cross-section of the classical world. He is not an original thinker, but he dissects the thought with which he was familiar with humility, care, and ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Parallel Lives

    by Plutarch ...
    Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, probably written at the beginning of the second century AD. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Plutarch’s Lives

    by Plutarch ...
    "Plutarch's Lives" is a collection of biographical essays written by the Greek historian and philosopher Plutarch in the 1st century AD. The work consists of 50 paired biographies of famous Greek and Roman figures, with each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman. The lives covered in the work range from legendary figures such as Theseus and Romulus, to famous politicians and military leaders ... Read more

    $1.33 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I

    by Plutarch ...
    Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives,' written at the beginning of the second century A.D., form a brilliant social history of the ancient world. They were originally presented in a series of books that gave an account of one Greek and one Roman life, followed by a comparison of the two: Theseus and Romulus, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demosthenes and Cicero, Demetrius and Antony. Plutarch was interested in ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Works Of Plutarch: Includes The Lives Of The Noble Grecians And Romans (Parallel Lives), Morals And Essays And Miscellanies (Mobi Collected Works)

    by Plutarch ...
    This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography.This Collection Includes:Essays and Miscellanies The Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I Translated by Aubrey StewartThe Lives of the noble ... Read more

    $7.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Roman Empire: 20 Must-Read Books

    Foundational Histories, Biographies, Campaigns, and Stoic Reflections on Power, Citizenship, and Rome's Decline

    by Plutarch, Livy, Julius Caesar, Emperor of Rome Augustus, Suetonius, Tacitus, Polybius, Marcus Aurelius, Harold Whetstone Johnston, Edward Gibbon, Theodor Mommsen, A. H. J. Greenidge, John Bagnell Bury, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Marc Monnier, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, W. Lucas Collins ...
    The Roman Empire: 20 Must-Read Books assembles a capacious archive of Roman power, civic life, warfare, moral reflection, and historical memory. Moving between annalistic history, military narrative, biography, political commentary, philosophy, and later scholarly synthesis, the volume traces Rome from republican expansion through imperial consolidation and decline. Accounts of conquest, imperial ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

  • Plutarch's Lives Translated from the Greek with Notes and a Life of Plutarch (Complete)

    by Plutarch ...
    No apologies are needed for a new edition of so favourite an author as Plutarch. From the period of the revival of classical literature in Europe down to our own times, his writings have done more than those of any other single author to familiarise us with the greatest men and the greatest events of the ancient world. The great Duke of Marlborough, it is said, confessed that his only knowledge of ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rome in Crisis

    by Plutarch ...
    Translated by Christopher Pelling ...
    Bringing together nine biographies from Plutarch's Parallel Lives series, this edition examines the lives of major figures in Roman history, from Lucullus (118-57 BC), an aristocratic politician and conqueror of Eastern kingdoms, to Otho (32-69 AD), a reckless young noble who consorted with the tyrannical, debauched emperor Nero before briefly becoming a dignified and gracious emperor himself.Ian ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Hellenistic Lives

    including Alexander the Great

    by Plutarch, Andrew Erskine ...
    Translated by Robin Waterfield ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Alexander * Demosthenes * Phocion * Eumenes * Demetrius * Pyrrhus * Agis and Cleomenes * Aratus * Philopoemen * Flamininus This selection of ten Lives traces the history of Hellenistic Greece from the rise of Macedon and Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire to the arrival of the Romans. Plutarch's biographies of eminent politicians, rulers, and soldiers combine vivid portraits of their ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Plutarch's Lives

    by Plutarch ...
    These forty-eight biographies by the ancient Greek scholar demonstrate the parallel lives of famous rulers such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar.A Greek priest of Delphi who acquired Roman citizenship later in life, Plutarch undertook his Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans to demonstrate the influence of character on the fates of famous men. He also wished to show that the legacy and ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Be a Leader

    An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership

    by Plutarch, Jeffrey Beneker ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any fieldThe ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled in his famous—and massive—Lives, including politicians and generals such as Pericles, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony. Luckily for us, Plutarch distilled what he learned about wise ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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