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Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the citys founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander.
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THE RISE AND FALL OF ATHENS
NINE GREEK LIVES

ADVISORY EDITOR: BETTY RADICE

PLUTARCH was one of the last of the classical Greek historians. He was born in about A.D. 45 at Chaeronea in Boeotia, where he later had a school, and in middle age he took up a priesthood at nearby Delphi.

When Nero visited Greece in A.D. 66, Plutarch was a student at Athens. He became a philosopher, a man capable of lecturing on and discussing many learned topics, and wrote a large number of essays and dialogues on philosophical, scientific and literary subjects (the Moralia). He adopted the philosophical standpoint of a Platonist, and frequently attacked both Stoics and Epicureans. He wrote his historical works somewhat late in life, and his Parallel Lives of eminent Greeks and Romans is probably his best-known and most influential work (their translation by North was used by Shakespeare as a source for his Roman plays).

Plutarch travelled in Egypt and also went to Rome, where he had many distinguished friends. The Emperor Hadrian honoured him with a government appointment in Greece, yet he always remained strongly attached to his native Chaeronea. His death probably occurred some years after A.D. 120.

IAN SCOTT-KILVERT was Director of English Literature at the British Council and Editor of Writers and their Works. He also translated Plutarchs Makers of Rome: Nine Lives and The Age of Alexander and Cassius Dios The Roman History for Penguin Classics. He died in 1989.

THE RISE AND FALL OF ATHENS

NINE GREEK LIVES BY PLUTARCH

THESEUS SOLON THEMISTOCLES ARISTIDES CIMON PERICLES NICIAS ALCIBIADES LYSANDER - photo 3

THESEUS

SOLON

THEMISTOCLES

ARISTIDES

CIMON

PERICLES

NICIAS

ALCIBIADES

LYSANDER

TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IAN SCOTT-KILVERT PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN - photo 4

TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IAN SCOTT-KILVERT

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Copyright Ian Scott-Kilvert, 1960 All rights reserved

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ISBN: 978-0-14-192146-4

CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION

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SIR THOMAS NORTH entitled his great translation of Plutarch The Lives of The Noble Grecians and Romans. Noble was his own importation, but it was a peculiarly well-chosen epithet, for it serves to emphasize the qualities which distinguish Plutarch from the Greek historians of the golden age. It reminds us of the distance which separates him from his subjects and of the heroic aura which had grown up around them in the meanwhile. Plutarch is, as it were, a backward-looking writer standing on the last range which divided the pagan civilization from the Christian. He lacks the startlingly original and impersonal quality of Periclean literature, just as that literature lacks his intimacy on the one hand and the breadth of his tolerance and philanthropy on the other. He was no Thucydides, applying a ruthlessly objective analysis to uncover the historical process. He was a lover of tradition, and his prime object was at once to cherish and understand the greatness of the past and to re-assert it as a living ideal.

Plutarchs life-time of some seventy-five years stretches from the middle forties A.D. to the beginning of Hadrians reign. It is the period at which the blend of Greek and Roman culture reached its highest point of development: almost all the major writers had done their work and Plutarchs writings are in many ways a summing up of that culture. He came of an ancient Theban family and he never strayed for long from his home-town of Chaeronea, a small city lying in the midst of the great Boeotian plain which the Greeks called the dancing-floor of Ares and which had witnessed the decisive battles of Haliartus, Leuctra, Chaeronea itself, and many more. Not that his own outlook was provincial in any narrowing sense. He studied philosophy in Athens as a young man, travelled in Greece and Egypt, earned a high reputation both as a scholar and a diplomat in Rome, making many influential friends in the process, and may even have been granted honorary consular rank.

Plutarch himself assiduously practised the ideal of the city-state, that the educated man should play his part in public life; and he held a succession of magistracies at Chaeronea and a priesthood at Delphi. In any political sense, of course, Greece had lost the last vestiges of her independence at the sack of Corinth two centuries before. Meanwhile not only had her population shrunk, but the riches and other material rewards of Italy and Asia had attracted many of her ablest soldiers, administrators, and scholars to emigrate, so that in his own time, according to Plutarchs estimate, Greece could scarcely have put three thousand armed men into the field. In the directly practical sphere no Greek could do anything to alter these realities, and yet it was no mere antiquarian sentiment which influenced Plutarch to keep his Hellenism as intact as possible rather than embark, say, on the career of an imperial civil servant. For the governing class of his day Roman and Greek education had become inseparably intermingled, and in the Roman Empire, which was now beginning to enjoy the benefits of stable government and yet possessed neither a moral nor an intellectual centre, a teacher of Plutarchs stature could still hope to benefit his fellow-men by inspiration and example.

The form of Plutarchs writings suggests that his gifts were for the essay rather than the full-length history. Apart from the biographies his other major work, the Moralia, is a collection of comparatively short treatises and dialogues which cover an immense range of subjects, literary, ethical, political, and scientific. There is a distinct correspondence between the two, the

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