{"product_id":"2026200014927-secondhand-plutarchs-lives-of-illustrious-men","title":"Plutarch's Lives Of Illustrious Men","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: First ed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Poor\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Binding tearing in some places but pages still intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew works have shaped the Western understanding of the ancient world as profoundly as Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men — a monumental collection of paired biographies that chronicles the careers of history's greatest Greek and Roman statesmen, generals, and orators. Originally composed by the Greek philosopher and historian Plutarch in the late first and early second centuries AD, this landmark edition presents the text corrected from the Greek and revised by the distinguished scholar A. H. Clough, offering readers a scrupulously faithful and elegantly rendered account of figures such as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Solon, and Cicero. Each biography is crafted not merely as a historical record, but as a moral portrait — a searching examination of virtue, ambition, courage, and the corrupting nature of power.\n\nPlutarch's method is comparative and philosophical, placing Greek and Roman lives side by side to illuminate timeless truths about human character rather than simply narrate political events. His influence on Renaissance humanism, Shakespearean drama, and Enlightenment political thought cannot be overstated — indeed, Shakespeare drew directly from these pages for his Roman tragedies. Clough's meticulous editorial hand ensures that this Victorian edition remains both a rigorous scholarly text and an accessible gateway into antiquity. Whether one comes to it as a student of history, a lover of philosophy, or simply a reader hungry for grand human drama, this collection poses a challenge that resonates across millennia: what truly makes a great man?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203160842459,"sku":"2026200014927-SECONDHAND","price":60.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c9826934-ac8e-433f-83db-2e4e8a750a63.png?v=1788144768","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014927-secondhand-plutarchs-lives-of-illustrious-men","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}