{"product_id":"9780140449051-the-rise-and-fall-of-athens","title":"The Rise And Fall Of Athens","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus its founder to Lysander its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal work What makes a leader? For Plutarch the answer lay not in great victories but in moral strengths. In these nine biographies taken from his Parallel Lives Plutarch illustrates the rise and fall of Athens through nine lives from the legendary days of Theseus the city's founder through Solon Themistocles Aristides Cimon Pericles Nicias and Alcibiades to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Plutarch ultimately held the weaknesses of its leaders responsible for the city's fall. His work is invaluable for its imaginative reconstruction of the past and profound insights into human life and achievement. This edition of Ian Scott - Kilvert's seminal translation fully revised with a new introduction and notes by John Marincola now also contains Plutarch's attack on the first historian On the Malice of Herodotus'.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The Rise And Fall Of Athens\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Plutarch\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780140449051\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 768 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 5\/21\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Ancient History: To C 500 Ce","brand":"Plutarch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49591410655537,"sku":"IN-G-9780140449051","price":27.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780140449051-the-rise-and-fall-of-athens","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}