Plutarch Demosthenes And Cicero

Plutarch's Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero are an unusual pair in that they are about orators and not military men. With the translations and commentaries, Lintott provides a detailed introduction which discusses the context of the texts, the author, and the philosophy which underlies Plutarch's presentation of the two personalities.

Lintott provides a detailed introduction which discusses the background and context of the lives of Demosthenes and Cicero essential information about the author and the periods in which these two orators lived, and the philosophy which underlies Plutarch's presentation of the two personalities.

This fourth volume in The Plutarch Project tells the stories of two famous orators, and a general's son who became king of Macedon. The book includes vocabulary, discussion questions, and other aids for students and parents/teachers, plus edited text for the Lives of Demosthenes, Cicero, and Demetrius.

Character studies comparing statesmen and generals of pre-Christian Greece and Rome.

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