Plutarch (2 knihy)
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Plutarch Greek Lives
Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander 'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror... The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them...
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Plutarch The Life of Alexander the Great EN
In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father’s empire through-out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander’s prediction that the new king should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat…
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