Translated by Louis Ropes Loomis. Introduction by Edith Hamilton. Condition: Excellent. Fine. Like New. Elegant book. Lovely cloth binding with gilt details on cover, and sewn binding. Quality workmanship made to last. Looks like it was made yesterday. Publication date unknown. Copyright 1951. Published by Walter J. Black, NY for the Classics Club. Includes intact original flyer insert. 758g 14x19.5x4.3cm The Classics Club Library Edition. This sought after edition of Plutarch contains the fifteen most important and interesting Lives, including Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Cato the Younger, Cicero, Pericles, Alcibiades, Coriolanus. Here too are such essays as The Eating of Meat, Exile, and The Tardiness of God's Punishments-plus a selection of letters ranging from the moving Letter of Consolation to His Wife (on the loss of their daughter) to the priceless Rules for Husband and Wife. Louise Ropes Loomis, late advisory editor of the Classics Club Library, made a new translation, and the distinguished Edith Hamilton, author of The Greek Way, The Roman Way, etc., contributes an illuminating introduction. The profusely annotated volume includes a glossary and three specially prepared maps to help you follow the important personages, places and events mentioned in the text.
