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" The age of Alexander : "
by Plutarch ; translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert and Timothy E. Duff ; introductions and notes by Timothy E. Duff ; with series preface by Christopher Pelling.
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BL
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873047
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Lives.English.
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| Main Entry
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Plutarch.
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| Title & Author
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The age of Alexander : : ten Greek lives /\ by Plutarch ; translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert and Timothy E. Duff ; introductions and notes by Timothy E. Duff ; with series preface by Christopher Pelling.
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Rev. ed.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Penguin Books,, 2011.
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| Series Statement
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Penguin classics
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| Page. NO
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xxxvii, 625 pages :: maps ;; 20 cm.
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| ISBN
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0140449353
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: 9780140449358
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"Timothy Duff's revised version of Ian Scott-Kilvert's translations is accompanied by a new general introduction, and introductions and notes to each Life [c2012]. He has also added two Lives previously not included: Artaxerxes I, Great King of Persia from 405 to 359 BC, and Eumenes of Cardia, one of Alexander's officers."--Page 4 of cover.
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Translated from the Latin.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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Artaxerxes -- Pelopidas -- Dion -- Timoleon -- Demosthenes -- Phocion -- Alexander -- Eumenes -- Demetrius -- Pyrrhus.
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| Abstract
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Plutarch's parallel biographies of the great men in Greek and Roman history are cornerstones of European literature. This selection provides intimate glimpses into the lives of these men, depicting, as he put it, 'those actions which illuminate the workings of the soul'.
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Greece, Biography, Early works to 1800.
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Greece.
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Greece.
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| Dewey Classification
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920.038
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920.038B
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| LC Classification
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DF208.P5513 2011
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K545.2clc
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Duff, Tim
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Scott-Kilvert, Ian
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