num_pages: 448
description: The nine Lives in this selection trace a crucial phase in ancient history.Plutarch's Lives of the great Greek statesmen amd men of action were designed to pair with the now better-known Roman portraits and contain many of his finest descriptions of war, revolution and heroic achievement.Agesilaus, Pelopidas, Dion, Timoleon, Demosthenes, Phocion, Alexander, Demetrius, Pyrrhus
language: English
title: The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives
titlecomplete: The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives (Agesilaus, Pelopidas, Dion, Timoleon, Demosthenes, Phocion, Alexander, Demetrius, Pyrrhus)
characters: Alexander the Great
genres: Classics, Historical, History, Philosophy, Ancient History, Biography Memoir, Biography, Ancient, Greece, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2676
publisher: Penguin Classics l286