Plutarchs Lives, Vol. 1

Ease, and speed of execution, seldom produces work of any permanent value or delicacy. It is the time which is spent in laborious production for which we are repaid by the durable character of the result. In the course of his grand theory of history, Oswald Spengler distinguishes what he sees as......more

"Lives" (a.k.a The Lives of the Great Greeks & Romans or Parallel Lives) is a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, arranged in pairs to facilitate the comparison their common characteristics. The first century AD author, Plutarch, states that his goal in writing is primarily to compare......more

Ok, kreće vožnja. Plutarha smatram jednim od najvećih pisaca svih vremena i mislim da bi da je rođen početkom dvadesetog veka bio najveći filmski scenarsita svih vremena. A zapravo su u njegovo vreme u svakom većem naselju postojali ljudi koji su pisali biografije poznatih stvarnih, mitskih i polu-mit......more

There's something really comforting about watching someone else's Republic fall apart, especially when so much of it has a familiar ring. If you want to be transported to an alternate universe where noble (and not-so-noble)characters vie with tragic mix of ignorance and evil and then settle it all w......more

Clearly, this is one of the all time great books and which can definitely be a slog a times. I did not realize how all of Western Civilization histories are just a rearranging of Plutarch in one way or another. There are redundancies between the biographies and a good historian ends up making them c......more