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Freeman
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"Plutarch"
 
   It seems most of LL's characters are reading Plutarch, Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Pythagorus, etc. and all I am reading is Louis L'Amour. Am I missing out on something?


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explore
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1. "RE: Plutarch"
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   I've often wondered that same thing,it would be intersting to see if a few of us tried one on for size to see?
kevin

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Hal Hall
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2. "RE: Plutarch"
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   If you would like to take a quick look, go to Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page) and search "Plutarch". There are several choices there. You can choose HTML, ePUB, or Kindle version of most.

Happy reading.

HH


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ChrisEngland
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3. "RE: Plutarch"
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   I decided to read a few works by Plutarch a few years ago, as LL had made me curious. As I work in a library I can get hold of this kind of thing quite easily. From Plutarch I moved on to Plato, Sophocles, Homer, Virgil, Cicero and others. The ancientness of these works fascinates me, and I have enjoyed them. Someone recently said something to me about the ancient Greek and Roman works being 'highbrow', but this is a myth. Any of us can read them and either like them or not, as with any other works. To anyone who is curious I'd say give it a try! I was spurred to read the classical authors by LL's mention of them in his books.

C


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Tennessee Dave
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4. "RE: Plutarch"
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   Beethoven, growing deaf, wrote in 1801: "I have often cursed my creator and my existance. Plutarch has shown me the path of resignation. If it is at all possible, I will bid defiance to my fate, though I feel that as long as I live there will be moments when I shall be God's most unhappy creature ... Resignation, what a wretched resource! Yet it is all that is left to me."

Facing death in Khartoum, General Gordon took time to note: "Certainly I would make Plutarch's Lives a handbook for our young officers. It is worth any number of 'Arts of War' or 'Minor Culture's Got to Go'"

Ralph Waldo Emerson called 'Lives' "a bible for heros"

Tennessee Dave

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Freeman
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5. "RE: Plutarch"
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   I may give it a try. I am sure I can find a used Plutarch on Ebay.


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Tennessee Dave
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6. "RE: Plutarch"
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   Freman,
Be sure and check out the mucho information on the internet first, just to get a fair idea of his work and where you can go with it.

Tennessee Dave

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DocKaty
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7. "Plutarch - most famous work"
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   Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives,a series of biographies of famous men arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings,contains twenty-three pairs of biographies. Each pair consists of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a source of information about the individuals biographized, but also about the times in which they lived.


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ChrisEngland
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8. "RE: Plutarch - most famous work"
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   DocKaty, it makes for fascinating reading.

C


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