00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000001433 20200508201452 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 0-85229-5316x13 010-0520001433 eng 081.20 081.20/PLU/G Plutarch Great Books of The Western World Ke-5 Chicago Encyclopedia Britannica 2005 v, 897 hlm, 21 cm Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. in an attempt to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes. The series is now in its second edition and contains 60 volumes. Volume 13 provides the history, philosophy, works and story of Plutarch he was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist. Plutarch was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia [Greece], a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. His oeuvre consists of the Parallel Lives and the Moralia.