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.
1.譯名與國內常見譯名不統一,且差彆很大; 2.翻譯拗口,不流暢。 作為非專業的普通讀者讀這種大部頭不是花錢找罪受的。其實齣版社在規範譯名,潤色文章方麵是可以多花些精力的。 草率的翻譯,“毀”瞭經典,普通讀者不如對著人名查英文維基百科。
評分1.譯名與國內常見譯名不統一,且差彆很大; 2.翻譯拗口,不流暢。 作為非專業的普通讀者讀這種大部頭不是花錢找罪受的。其實齣版社在規範譯名,潤色文章方麵是可以多花些精力的。 草率的翻譯,“毀”瞭經典,普通讀者不如對著人名查英文維基百科。
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