The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives
by Plutarch, Ian Scott-Kilvert
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Author: Ian Scott-Kilvert, PlutarchIntroduction: Ian Scott-Kilvert
Translator: Ian Scott-Kilvert
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1960-09-30
ISBN: 0140441026
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Book Review: The human condition 'warts and all'!
Summary: 4 Stars
I have taken a liking to Greek literature within the last year and (rightly) believed Plutarch's lives to be an essential read. I am forever coming across references to Plutarch's work so I decided that it was time to embark on a read. This particular translation is particularly good. I was able to make comparisons with other translations Ian Scott-Kilvert's was by far the most readable without losing much of richness that Greek literature implicitly stores. The book itself contains some of the greatest moments of human virtue and vice that I have ever read, and you are able to forgive him for his historical inaccuracy simply because he depicts the characters as so very, very human. Plutarch is by no means Homer, and anyone who begins to read this book hoping to make any such comparison will be sorely disappointed. Yet like most Greek literature he deals with the human condition so very well that you can appreciate Plutarch not as a historian, but as a biographer of the human species in general.
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