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| #173331 in Books | Plutarch Richard J A Talbert Christopher Pelling | 2005-12-27 | 2005-12-27 | Fabric type: None | Original language:Ancient Greek | PDF # 1 | 7.70 x.62 x5.00l,.53 | File type: PDF | 304 pages | On Sparta Penguin Classics||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting and thought-provoking read|By Christopher R. Travers|This book is a collection of some lives and excerpts from lives (or biographies) by Plutarch about Spartan kings. It provides a great deal of food for thought and I would recommend it.
The book consists of roughly three parts: The first is a collection of biographies of Spartan kings (Lycurgas, etc).|About the Author|Plutarch (c.50-c.120 AD) was a writer and thinker born into a wealthy, established family of Chaeronea in central Greece. He received the best possible education in rhetoric and philosophy, and traveled to Asia Minor and Egypt. Later
Plutarch’s vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of their remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta’s leaders and his recording of memorable Spartan Sayings, he depicts a people who lived frugally and mastered their emotions in all aspects of life, who disposed of unhealthy babies in a deep chasm, introduced a gruelling ...
You easily download any file type for your device.On Sparta (Penguin Classics) | Plutarch. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
