{"product_id":"plutarch-parallel-lives-volume-2-paperback","title":"Plutarch's Parallel Lives, Vol. II (Paperback)","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRestored Classic \/ Military History \/ Strategy \/ Leadership\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePower is easy to admire from a distance. Plutarch studied what it did to the person holding it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor nearly two thousand years, \u003cem\u003eParallel Lives\u003c\/em\u003e has invited readers into the ambitions, victories, mistakes, rivalries, and private character of the men who shaped Greece and Rome. Plutarch was interested in more than what his subjects conquered. He wanted to know what kind of person could command, govern, survive defeat, endure success, or destroy himself with ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVolume II belongs to soldiers, statesmen, reformers, and men dangerous enough to change history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnter the lives of Pelopidas and Marcellus, Aristides and Cato the Elder, Philopoemen and Titus Flamininus, Pyrrhus, Marius, Lysander and Sulla, and Cimon and Lucullus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere are battlefield commanders, political rivals, republicans, reformers, conquerors, and men whose appetite for victory could become as dangerous as the enemies they fought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Trumpet Publishing House edition forms part of our historic restoration and modernization project, preserving one of the great works of classical biography while bringing its language and lessons into clearer reach for contemporary readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead it for military history. Read it for political strategy. Read it for leadership. Then notice the question Plutarch keeps asking beneath all three: \u003cem\u003eWhat happens to character when power arrives?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWeapons changed. Ambition did not.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback | \u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Plutarch | \u003cstrong\u003eOriginal Work:\u003c\/strong\u003e Early second century AD | \u003cstrong\u003eHistoric Four-Volume Translation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Aubrey Stewart and George Long | \u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Restored and Modernized by Trumpet Publishing House\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVolume II includes Pelopidas, Marcellus, Aristides, Cato the Elder, Philopoemen, Titus Flamininus, Pyrrhus, Marius, Lysander, Sulla, Cimon, and Lucullus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAvailable in Australia. International readers - hardcover edition available.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA library of commanders and statesmen, and a reminder that winning the battle was never the whole story.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvery book purchased directly from trumpetpublishinghouse.com plants a tree. Because great ideas deserve a living legacy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Trumpet Publishing House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53988944838972,"sku":"TPH-PB-PPL-V2-001","price":33.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3650\/1820\/files\/PaperbackTrumpetSeason1CoverMockupPRODUCTOVERLAY_2.png?v=1786949697","url":"https:\/\/trumpetpublishinghouse.com\/products\/plutarch-parallel-lives-volume-2-paperback","provider":"Trumpet Publishing House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}