Plutarque & D. Ricard - Les Vies des Hommes Illustres de Plutarque - 1829

A fascinating eight-volume set from this vast biographical collection inspired by Plutarch’s classical works, in which the lives of the great figures of ancient Greece and Rome are traced to offer both a history of classical civilizations and a moral reflection on virtues, passions, and human destinies -

Here divided into fourteen volumes gathered into eight, this French edition reuses the famous parallel biographies where Plutarch generally compares a Greek figure to a Roman one in order to highlight their qualities, their flaws and their influence on the history of their peoples -

The work seeks not only to recount historical events but above all to study the character of illustrious men and the moral lessons that can be drawn from their conduct -

The lives presented cover an immense period of antiquity and bring back to life major figures such as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Pericles, Lycurgus, Solon, Alcibiades, Demosthenes, Cato, Pompey or Mark Antony -

Plutarch & D. Ricard - The Lives of Illustrious Men by Plutarch - 1829 - 14 Volumes in 8 volumes - At the Editors’ Office -
Approximately 250 pages per volume -

Good condition of bindings, volumes in their original brown half-leather, marbled boards, signs of wear, some minor defects on boards and spine (one spine blank), frayed at the headpieces, worn corners, speckled edges, spines with raised bands, gilded titrages, volumes and author’s name on a black background –

Good interior condition, some foxing, superb frontispiece engraving, marbled endpapers in good condition, a fine overall set –

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