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قراءة كتاب The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls
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The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls
THE BOYS' AND GIRLS' PLUTARCH
BEING PARTS OF THE "LIVES" OF PLUTARCH
By Plutarch
Edited for Boys and Girls With Introductions By John S. White
Head-Master Berkeley School
CONTENTS
COMPARISON OF THESEUS AND ROMULUS
COMPARISON OF DEMOSTHENES AND CICERO
COMPARISON OF ALCIBIADES AND CORIOLANUS
THE ENGINES OF ARCHIMEDES FROM THE LIFE OF MARCELLUS
DESCRIPTION OF CLEOPATRA FROM THE LIFE OF ANTONY
ANECDOTES FROM THE LIFE OF AGESILAUS, KING OF SPARTA
THE BROTHERS FROM THE LIFE OF TIMOLEON
A ROMAN TRIUMPH FROM THE LIFE OF PAULUS AEMILIUS
THE NOBLE CHARACTER OF CAIUS FABRICIUS FROM THE LIFE OF PYRRHUS
FROM THE LIFE OF QUINTUS FABIUS MAXIMUS
THE CRUELTY OF LUCIUS CORNELIUS SYLLA
THE SCROLL-FROM THE LIFE OF LYSANDER
THE SACRED THEBAN BAND FROM THE LIFE OF PELOPIDAS.
THESEUS
As geographers crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, unapproachable bogs, Seythian ice, or frozen sea, so, in this great work of mine, in which I have compared the lives of the greatest men with one another, after passing through those periods which probable reasoning can reach to and real history find a footing in, I might very well say of those that are farther off, Beyond this there is nothing but prodigies and fictions; the only inhabitants are the poets and inventors of fables; there is no credit, or certainty any farther. Yet, after publishing an account of Lycurgus the lawgiver and Numa the king, I thought I might, not without reason, ascend as high as to Romulus,