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The Life of Alexander the Great
In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father’s empire through-out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander’s prediction that the new king “should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets an...more
Paperback, 96 pages
Published
April 13th 2004
by Modern Library
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La historia de Alejandro es contada con bastante habilidad por Plutarco, desde su nacimiento hasta su muerte. Plutarco la tiñe constantemente de una visión moralizante: Alejandro es ejemplo de virtud, lo que explica su éxito (cuando cae en la soberbia y la injusticia, sobrevinene su desgracia, aunque la relación causal nos ea explícita).
Es inetresante, después de haber leído libros como el de Manfredi, acercarse a una de las principales fuentes sobre Alejandro, y contrarrestar luego ...more
Es inetresante, después de haber leído libros como el de Manfredi, acercarse a una de las principales fuentes sobre Alejandro, y contrarrestar luego ...more
Many thanks to Plutarch for a such great job he did .It is a fact that He was not a father of biography genre , but he surely enriched this genre . To quote more than 150 historians in his Live's and spending more than 20 years and that's i guess a really massive job to do . -
-Plutarch's ostensible intent was to remind Greeks in their third century of relatively humane Roman rule, that even if their once-populated countryside was now deserted and their cities were often in ruins , thei...more
-Plutarch's ostensible intent was to remind Greeks in their third century of relatively humane Roman rule, that even if their once-populated countryside was now deserted and their cities were often in ruins , thei...more
You've seen the movie, but is it accurate? You won't know until you read books such as Plutarch's account of Alexander the Great.
I did my thesis on Alexander the Great in college. Among a lot of other books, this account of Alexander's life as told by Plutarch, provided me with accurate information on both his life and the culture of his time and I used this as a prominent resource in my research. However, while it is historical and educational, it is also a very interesting read.
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I did my thesis on Alexander the Great in college. Among a lot of other books, this account of Alexander's life as told by Plutarch, provided me with accurate information on both his life and the culture of his time and I used this as a prominent resource in my research. However, while it is historical and educational, it is also a very interesting read.
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I actually liked it more than I thought I would. Alexander did lead an interesting life, to say the least. Harder to read than a lot of other books, it was worth it because I actually took away nerdy knowledge I will now be able to use in conversations to appear smarter than I actually am.
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awesome rendition, but it made me think: Plutarch what were you smoking while you made half that stuff up? har har har!
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Loved it, but too short. Plutarch was an amazing writer, and so I could read him all day...
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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Greek: Μέστριος Πλούταρχος), c. AD 46 - 120, commonly known in English as Plutarch, was a Roman historian (of Greek ethnicity), biographer, essayist, priest, ambassador, magistrate, and Middle Platonist. Plutarch was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. His oeuvre consists of the Parallel Lives and the Moralia.
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