by Plutarch · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140442861
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«The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives» is a collection of nine biographies by Plutarch published by Penguin Classics in paperback (448 pages).
The book brings together nine lives by Plutarch that cover a decisive period of Greek history: Agesilaus, Pelopidas, Dion, Timoleon, Demosthenes, Phocion, Alexander, Demetrius and Pyrrhus. The biographies blend war, revolution and the account of great deeds, and the edition adds textual and historical notes.
Text in English. Translation and notes by Ian Scott-Kilvert, with an introduction by G. T. Griffith. Volume 286 of Penguin Classics.
Recommended for readers of ancient history and classical biographies, with a special interest in the period of Alexander the Great.
Plutarch was a Greek and later Roman Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Moralia, a collection of essays and speeches. Upon becoming a Roman citizen, he was possibly named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus.
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