Personal blog for Alex Small, a young and cranky traditionalist physics professor.
Sunday, December 29, 2019
Next book: Plutarch's Lives
My next reading project will be Parallel Lives by Plutarch, a compilation of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans. Because all of this has happened before and will happen again.
I read four Penguin books complications of Plutarch's lives, grouping them and arranging them in chronological order to form a narrative. The titles were The Rise and Fall of Athens, the Age of Alexander, Makers of Rome and the Fall of the Roman Republic. Each of the volumes, especially the first and fourth, showed me how the individual lives fit in with the overall history.
If I'd read them as Plutarch wrote them, as Parallel Lives, I don't know what I'd have made of them. I'll be interested in what you have to say.
I read four Penguin books complications of Plutarch's lives, grouping them and arranging them in chronological order to form a narrative. The titles were The Rise and Fall of Athens, the Age of Alexander, Makers of Rome and the Fall of the Roman Republic. Each of the volumes, especially the first and fourth, showed me how the individual lives fit in with the overall history.
ReplyDeleteIf I'd read them as Plutarch wrote them, as Parallel Lives, I don't know what I'd have made of them. I'll be interested in what you have to say.