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Plutarch: Malice of HerodotosAris & Phillips Classical Texts The Malice of Herodotus can perhaps best be described as the world's earliest known book review. But it is much more than that, for in the course of 'correcting' with considerable vituperation what he saw as Herodotus' anti Greek bias, Plutarch tells us much about his own attitude to writing history. So that together with Lucian's How to Write History (see Lucian A Selection in this series) it forms a basic text for the

With an easily navigable structure and generous cross-referencing

the Athenians' ill-fated Sicilian expedition (from Thucydides' Histories) and the life and death of Socrates

Both the translation and commentary aim to explain the scientific argument of the book as clearly as possible

with some fluency and intelligence in one to two years

primary sources and engaging stories

'In Harris' hands

whose name is already becoming a legend: Alexander

στην υπέρτατη αξία της ζωής πάνω από κάθε ιδεολογία

In a desperate bid by her obsessive husband to keep her under control

While Propertius's and Ovid's setting is the city and their poems show us such details of urbane Roman life as drinking parties and elaborate hair-dressing

The conversations and innovations that unfolded there would lay the groundwork for musical theory and practice in Greece and Rome for centuries to come

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