Author: Hugh Liebert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107148782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Recasts Plutarch's Lives as a work of political philosophy emerging from the imperial encounter of Greece and Rome.
The American Plutarch
Author: Edward T. James
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Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Author:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Appended to vols. 1-5 are statements concerning the school, regulations of the school, etc., dated Jan. 1885, Jan. 1888, Feb. 1892.
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Appended to vols. 1-5 are statements concerning the school, regulations of the school, etc., dated Jan. 1885, Jan. 1888, Feb. 1892.
A Modern Plutarch
Author: Robert Lloyd George
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468314114
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Inspired by the Ancient Greek biographer, this volume offers comparative assessments of important leaders from American and British history. One of the most significant and enduring texts of Ancient Greece is Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans. In it, the “Father of Biography” paired off the most notable and influential figures of the classical world, placing their lives and legacies next to each other, allowing the comparisons and juxtapositions to reveal new truths about these famous men. He compared Demosthenes with Cicero, Alexander the Great with Julius Caesar; the result was an intellectual masterpiece still referred to by historians today. In A Modern Plutarch, Robert Lloyd George applies this model of biography to the most influential statesmen and stateswomen of American and British history. Lloyd George compares figures such as Edmund Burke, a prophet of modern conservatism, and Thomas Paine, a champion for the common man. He juxtaposes Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln, two of the greatest wartime leaders of the past 200 years, and Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, the first divisive, the latter popular. In doing so, he draws parallels between their lives and philosophies, while revealing the traits that made them unique. An essential primer on leadership and an inspiring account of exceptional lives, A Modern Plutarch offers remarkable insight into some of the greatest minds of the modern era.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468314114
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Inspired by the Ancient Greek biographer, this volume offers comparative assessments of important leaders from American and British history. One of the most significant and enduring texts of Ancient Greece is Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans. In it, the “Father of Biography” paired off the most notable and influential figures of the classical world, placing their lives and legacies next to each other, allowing the comparisons and juxtapositions to reveal new truths about these famous men. He compared Demosthenes with Cicero, Alexander the Great with Julius Caesar; the result was an intellectual masterpiece still referred to by historians today. In A Modern Plutarch, Robert Lloyd George applies this model of biography to the most influential statesmen and stateswomen of American and British history. Lloyd George compares figures such as Edmund Burke, a prophet of modern conservatism, and Thomas Paine, a champion for the common man. He juxtaposes Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln, two of the greatest wartime leaders of the past 200 years, and Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, the first divisive, the latter popular. In doing so, he draws parallels between their lives and philosophies, while revealing the traits that made them unique. An essential primer on leadership and an inspiring account of exceptional lives, A Modern Plutarch offers remarkable insight into some of the greatest minds of the modern era.
Plutarch's Lives
Author: Plutarch
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Plutarch's Politics
Author: Hugh Liebert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107148782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Recasts Plutarch's Lives as a work of political philosophy emerging from the imperial encounter of Greece and Rome.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107148782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Recasts Plutarch's Lives as a work of political philosophy emerging from the imperial encounter of Greece and Rome.
Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Author: Archaeological Institute of America
Publisher:
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Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Transactions of the American Philological Association
Author: American Philological Association
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Category : Philology
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Category : Philology
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Parallel Lives
Author: Karl Baughman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000591115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
This book compares selected Romans of the late Republic with American Founders in the style of Plutarch, encouraging readers to rethink how we view heroes and villains and their conceptions of republicanism. Through entertaining yet informative short comparisons, this volume demonstrates the humanity of heroes and villains from different times and places through their often idiosyncratic similarities and differences. Readers gain not only a fuller understanding of the late Roman and early American Republics and their leaders but also an appreciation for comparative biography in its ability to make connections across the human experience. The book provides a way to connect two different areas of study, focusing on how republicanism shaped both Romans and American Founders and providing a previously unexplored contribution to a growing trend of broadening historical exposure. In doing so, Baughman and Poston demonstrate the continued need for connecting different fields of history while also helping students understand their connection to the ancient past. This book is suitable for students and scholars interested in the late Roman and the early American Republics and also appeals to readers of varied interests across historical times and places, particularly those studying the connections between the classical past and modern world.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000591115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
This book compares selected Romans of the late Republic with American Founders in the style of Plutarch, encouraging readers to rethink how we view heroes and villains and their conceptions of republicanism. Through entertaining yet informative short comparisons, this volume demonstrates the humanity of heroes and villains from different times and places through their often idiosyncratic similarities and differences. Readers gain not only a fuller understanding of the late Roman and early American Republics and their leaders but also an appreciation for comparative biography in its ability to make connections across the human experience. The book provides a way to connect two different areas of study, focusing on how republicanism shaped both Romans and American Founders and providing a previously unexplored contribution to a growing trend of broadening historical exposure. In doing so, Baughman and Poston demonstrate the continued need for connecting different fields of history while also helping students understand their connection to the ancient past. This book is suitable for students and scholars interested in the late Roman and the early American Republics and also appeals to readers of varied interests across historical times and places, particularly those studying the connections between the classical past and modern world.
Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men
Author: Plutarch
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution
Author: Russell M. Lawson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100028171X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Originally published in 2011, this volume publishes the letters of Jeremy Belknap and Ebenezer Hazard. The letters encompassed twenty years, from 1779 to 1798, during a time when the United States was warring against England, establishing new governments, building a national identity, exploring the hinterland, and refining an American identity in prose and verse. The letters of Hazard and Belknap tell of an age when science and religion had not yet divorced due to irreconcilable differences, when the most profound philosophy nestled comfortably next to a childlike fascination with the remarkable. The two friends explored in their epistles the nature of love, death, and piety; the best way for humans to govern themselves; matters of religious and scientific truth and the best means to arrive at it; the methods and writing of history; human credulity; and the wonders of nature.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100028171X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Originally published in 2011, this volume publishes the letters of Jeremy Belknap and Ebenezer Hazard. The letters encompassed twenty years, from 1779 to 1798, during a time when the United States was warring against England, establishing new governments, building a national identity, exploring the hinterland, and refining an American identity in prose and verse. The letters of Hazard and Belknap tell of an age when science and religion had not yet divorced due to irreconcilable differences, when the most profound philosophy nestled comfortably next to a childlike fascination with the remarkable. The two friends explored in their epistles the nature of love, death, and piety; the best way for humans to govern themselves; matters of religious and scientific truth and the best means to arrive at it; the methods and writing of history; human credulity; and the wonders of nature.