Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus
By Plutarch (Rome)
The fierce Roman warrior who took the city of Corioli single-handed, banished by his ungrateful city, and turned his legions against Rome until his mother Volumnia knelt. Moral focus: Unyielding pride, civic ingratitude, and filial devotion.
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Lesson 1: The Orphan Warrior and his Mother Volumnia
Term Reading 1 of 12 • Caius Marcius Coriolanus
The Orphan Warrior and his Mother Volumnia
Marcius fights for honor only to delight the heart of the mother who raised him.
[Public Domain: Plutarch's Parallel Lives, translated by John Dryden / Thomas North.]
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Lesson 1: The Orphan Warrior and his Mother Volumnia
Term Reading 1 of 12 • Caius Marcius Coriolanus
Lesson 2: The Assault on Corioli & The Crown of Oak
Term Reading 2 of 12 • Caius Marcius Coriolanus
Lesson 3: The Famine in Rome & The Corn of Sicily
Term Reading 3 of 12 • Caius Marcius Coriolanus
Lesson 4: The Tribunes & The Trial on the Tarpeian Rock
Term Reading 4 of 12 • Caius Marcius Coriolanus
Lesson 5: The Stoic Farewell at the City Gate
Term Reading 5 of 12 • Caius Marcius Coriolanus
Lesson 6: The Hearth of Tullus Aufidius
Term Reading 6 of 12 • Caius Marcius Coriolanus
Lesson 7: The Double Leadership of the Volscian Army
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Lesson 8: Panic in the Streets of Rome
Term Reading 8 of 12 • Caius Marcius Coriolanus
Lesson 9: The Rejected Ambassadors & Priests
Term Reading 9 of 12 • Caius Marcius Coriolanus
Lesson 10: The Procession of Matrons: Volumnia and Virgilia
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Lesson 11: 'Thou Hast Saved Rome, but Lost Thy Son'
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Lesson 12: The Death at Antium & The Mourning in Rome
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