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Essays on Plutarch's Lives

By Scardigili

Essays on Plutarch's Lives

By Scardigili

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This volume brings together the work of a wide range of international scholars on the most important themes in Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives. It includes contributions on Plutarch's life and cultural milieu; his methodology; the chronological order of composition and the cross-references from one Life to another; on the possibility that several biographies were edited simultaneously; the methods Plutarch adopted to summarize his own reading and research; the choice of subjects and of sources; Plutarch's compositional techniques; and the criteria for selecting the Greek and Roman pairs. An introduction discusses the traditions of historiography which influenced Plutarch, and the background to Graeco-Roman biography, analysing Plutarch's sources and assessing how he used them. At the cusp between literature, philosophy, and history, Plutarch's biographies and these studies of them are of unique interest to scholars interested in all aspects of the ancient world.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
412
Release Date:
1995-03-23
Publication Date:
1997-04-01
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198140762
ISBN13:
9780198140764
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
710 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
28 cm
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