Children's Plutarch: Tales of the Greeks

Children's Plutarch: Tales of the Greeks

by F. J. Gould
Print-on-demand paperback, 157 pages
Price: $11.95

Historical Setting: Ancient Greece

This book includes twenty-one stories of famous Greek citizens adapted for the younger reader from the admirable biographies of Plutarch. Though the original offers "parallel lives," going back and forth between Greek and Roman culture, An ideal introduction to the characters that figured prominently in the history of ancient Greece. Includes three black and white illustrations by Walter Crane.

Includes:

Lycurgus, Solon, Aristides, Themistocles, Cimon, Pericles, Lysander and others, Alcibiades, Cyrus & Artaxerxes, Agesilaus, Agis, Peopidas, Dion, Timoleon, Demosthenes, Alexander, Phocion, Demetrius, Aratus, Pyrrhus, Philopoemen

 

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