Plutarch
Subtitle: Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans (Modern Library Series, Vol. 1)
Contributors: Arthur Hugh Clough (Editor); John Dryden (Translator)
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: September 5, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 800
ISBN-13: 9780679600084
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Other prose: classical, early & medieval; General; Ancient World History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Biography/Autobiography; Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome; Greece; Biography & Autobiography / General; Reading Group Guide; Biography; Early works to 1800; Rome
First sentence: When AEthra was delivered of a son, some say that he was immediately named Thesus, from the tokens which his father had put under the stone; others that he had received his name afterwards at Athens, when AEgeus acknowledged him for his son.