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Plutarch's Lives: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XII (in 51 Volumes)

Plutarch's Lives: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XII (in 51 Volumes)

Dryden, John
Plutarch
Eliot, Charles W.

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ISBN10: 1616401273
ISBN13: 9781616401276
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: Feb 1 2010
Pages: 410
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.91 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Translator name not noted above: Arthur Hugh Clough Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name Harvard Classics, this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume XII features selections from the biographical writings of the Greek historian PLUTARCH (c. 46 A.D.-120 A.D.), which offer us the only sources of information that have survived for some personages, and exerted a profound influence on the literature to come, particularly throughout the Renaissance and Enlightenment. Included are Plutarch's biographies of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Coriolanus, Demosthenes, Cicero, and others.

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