Great Books of the Western World (Book 13) : Plutarch : The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (Record no. 16688)
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| fixed length control field | 01586nam a22001577a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0852295316 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 920.038 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Great Books of the Western World (Book 13) : Plutarch : The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans |
| Statement of responsibility | Mortimer J. Adler [Editor in Chief] ; Robert P. Gwinn and Galen |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Chicago |
| Name of publisher | Encyclopaedia Britannica |
| Year of publication | 1993 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 897 Pages |
| Other physical details | 24x16 cm |
| -- | HB |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Include Index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Plutarch's Parallel Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., form a brilliant social history of the ancient world. They were originally presented in a series of books that gave an account of one Greek and one Roman life, followed by a comparison of the two: Theseus and Romulus, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demosthenes and Cicero, Demetrius and Antony. Plutarch was interested in the personalities of his subjects and on the way their characters molded their actions, leading them to tragedy or victory. He was a moralist of the highest order. 'It was for the sake of others that I first commenced writing biographies' he says, 'but I find myself proceeding and attaching myself to it for my own; the virtues of these great men serving me as a sort of looking-glass, in which I may see how to adjust and adorn my own life' Plutarch was a man of immense erudition who had traveled widely throughout the Roman Empire, and the Lives are richly anecdotal and full of detail. They were the principal source of Shakespeare's Roman plays. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Rome (Empire) |
| -- | Greece |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Editor in Chief Adler, Mortimer J. |
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| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Permanent Location | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Garrison Public Library Multan | Garrison Public Library Multan | General Stacks | 2017-02-10 | MSL | 920.038 A237G 1993 | 25448 | Books |