Vite parallele (III)
- Lingua:
- inglese
- Stato:
- Opera completa
- Autorialità:
- Scritta dall'autore
- Stato del testo:
- Nessun rumore di scansione rilevato (misura automatica su tutto il testo, non verificata a mano)
- Estensione:
- ~240.000 parole · 1138 passi
Cita quest'opera
- APAPlutarco. (n.d.). Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4) [Vite parallele (III)]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/plutarch/plutarch-s-lives-volume-3-of-4
- MLAPlutarco. Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4) [Vite parallele (III)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/it/works/plutarch/plutarch-s-lives-volume-3-of-4.
- ChicagoPlutarco. Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4) [Vite parallele (III)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/plutarch/plutarch-s-lives-volume-3-of-4.
Riferimento dell'edizione che SigPhi riproduce: SigPhi ne è la riproduzione digitale, non l'editore. L'anno dell'edizione non figura nei metadati (da qui «n.d.») e il traduttore compare solo quando è noto.
Di che cosa tratta
Il terzo volume di un'edizione in quattro tomi delle Vite parallele.
Contesto e storia
Conviene saperlo prima di cominciare: nel catalogo ci sono DUE edizioni diverse delle Vite, questa in quattro volumi e un'altra in uno solo. Non sono opere diverse né si completano a vicenda; sono lo stesso testo in vesti diverse, e la partizione in volumi è dell'editore, non di Plutarco, che scrisse coppie di vite indipendenti. Per citarlo l'uso è dare il nome del personaggio e il capitolo — «Alessandro 1» —, valido in qualsiasi edizione.
Contesto editoriale, non una fonte citabile: a differenza dei passi dell'opera, questi dati non si possono verificare sul corpus.
thought, for no adequate reasons, had involved the Greeks in the greatest miseries, while the former had relieved them of their troubles by persuading them to become friends. For this reason this peace is to this day called the peace of Nikias. X. The terms of the peace were that each party should restore the cities and territory which it had taken, and that it should be determined by lot which side should restore its conquests first. We are told by Theophrastus that Nikias, by means of bribery, arranged that the lot should fall upon the Lacedæmonians to make restitution first. When, however, the Corinthians and Bœotians, dissatisfied with the whole transaction, seemed likely by their complaints and menaces to rekindle the war, Nikias induced Athens and Sparta to confirm the peace by entering upon an alliance, which enabled them to deal with the malcontents with more authority, and give them more confidence in one another. All these transactions greatly displeased Alkibiades, who was naturally disinclined to peace, and who hated the Lacedæmonians because they paid their court to Nikias and disregarded him. For this reason, Alkibiades from the very outset opposed the peace, but ineffectually at first. When, however, he observed that the Lacedæmonians were no longer regarded with favour by the Athenians, and were thought to have wronged them by forming an alliance with the Bœotians, and not restoring to Athens up the cities of Panaktus and Amphipolis, he seized the opportunity of exciting the people by exaggerated accounts of the misdeeds of the Lacedæmonians. Moreover he prevailed upon the people of Argos to send ambassadors to Athens to conclude an alliance.…