Plutarch and His Roman Readers

Plutarch and His Roman Readers
Author: Philip A. Stadter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2015
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0198718330

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This book is a collection of essays on the Parallel Lives of the Greek philosopher and biographer Plutarch which examines the moral issues Plutarch recognized behind political leadership, and places his writings in their political and social context of the reigns of the Flavian emperors and their successors.

Plutarch and his Contemporaries

Plutarch and his Contemporaries
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2024-02-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004687300

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The volume puts into the spotlight overlaps and points of intersection between Plutarch and other writers of the imperial period. It contains twenty-eight contributions which adopt a comparative approach and put into sharper relief ongoing debates and shared concerns, revealing a complex topography of rearrangements and transfigurations of inherited topics, motifs, and ideas. Reading Plutarch alongside his contemporaries brings out distinctive features of his thought and uncovers peculiarities in his use of literary and rhetorical strategies, imagery, and philosophical concepts, thereby contributing to a better understanding of the empire’s culture in general, and Plutarch in particular.

Plutarch's Lives

Plutarch's Lives
Author: Plutarch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1769
Genre:
ISBN:

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Plutarch's Lives

Plutarch's Lives
Author: Plutarch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 790
Release: 1845
Genre: Greece
ISBN:

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Plutarch's Lives

Plutarch's Lives
Author: Plutarch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 478
Release: 1826
Genre: Greece
ISBN:

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Plutarch and His Intellectual World

Plutarch and His Intellectual World
Author: Judith Mossman
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1997-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1910589578

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Plutarch's writings, for long treated in a fragmentary way as a source for earlier periods, are now increasingly studied in their own right. The thirteen original essays in this volume range over Plutarch's relations with his contemporaries and his engagement in philosophical debate, his views on social issues such as education and gender, his modes of expression and his construction of argument. Also treated here are Plutarch's understanding and use of his antecedents, literary and historical, and the sophisticated techniques with which he conveyed his own vision. It is a theme of the present book that the writings of Plutarch should be seen as the product of a single, extraordinarily capacious, intelligence.

A Companion to Plutarch

A Companion to Plutarch
Author: Mark Beck
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 838
Release: 2013-11-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1118316371

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A Companion to Plutarch offers a broad survey of the famous historian and biographer; a coherent, comprehensive, and elegant presentation of Plutarch’s thought and influence Constitutes the first survey of its kind, a unified and accessible guide that offers a comprehensive discussion of all major aspects of Plutarch’s oeuvre Provides essential background information on Plutarch’s world, including his own circle of influential friends (Greek and Roman), his travels, his political activity, and his relations with Trajan and other emperors Offers contextualizing background, the literary and cultural details that shed light on some of the fundamental aspects of Plutarch’s thought Surveys the ideologically crucial reception of the Greek Classical Period in Plutarch’s writings Follows the currents of recent serious scholarship, discussing perennial interests, and delving into topics and works not formerly given serious attention

Plutarch's Lives

Plutarch's Lives
Author: Francis Wrangham
Publisher: Arkose Press
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2015-11-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781346320021

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Plutarch's Lives: Volume I - Complete with Notes

Plutarch's Lives: Volume I - Complete with Notes
Author: Plutarch
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2018-08-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781387787609

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This anthology of Plutarch's biographies boasts an excellent and highly readable translation by two scholars of classical literature. In this volume, we hear Plutarch's accounts of several iconic figures from Greek and Roman antiquity. Nominally arranged according to their moral successes and failings of the individuals concerned, the Lives are a stunning insight into how the figures of antiquity were perceived and chronicled relatively soon after passing into history. Written in the 2nd century A.D., the Lives were distributed en masse following the invention of the printing press in the early Renaissance. As well as being compelling biography, certain accounts of rulers such as Pericles are highly regarded as secondary sources by contemporary historians. In multiple cases, Plutarch compared and contrasted several of his biographical subjects. For instance early in this volume we find comparisons between Theseus and Romulus, wherein their morals, characteristics and actions are examined.