Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans

出版者:Modern Library

作者:Plutarch

页数:764

译者:John Dryden

出版时间:1992-9-5

价格:USD 24.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780679600084

具体描述

Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus and Theseus, Numa and Lycurgus, Fabius and Pericles, and many more powerful figures of ancient Greece and Rome.

The present translation, originally published in 1683 in conjunction with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in 1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes and preface are also included in this edition.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

读后感

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历史有很多时候都是矛盾的，说起带一个“古”字的国家或许区域，总让人觉得遥远。可是正是这种距离感让人更想去搞清楚。 喜欢希腊的智慧，出了多少哲学家，先不论其观点在现代观点看来是否正确，他们的创新性就足够让人折服。在此，我还...

1.译名与国内常见译名不统一，且差别很大； 2.翻译拗口，不流畅。 作为非专业的普通读者读这种大部头不是花钱找罪受的。其实出版社在规范译名，润色文章方面是可以多花些精力的。 草率的翻译，“毁”了经典，普通读者不如对着人名查英文维基百科。