Plutarch & His Intellectual World: Essays on Plutarch - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0715627783 ISBN 13 : 9780715627785

Editeur : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

This is a collection of 13 original essays on Plutarch, a writer crucial for the understanding of classical Greece and Rome. Plutarch's writings, for a long time treated in a fragmentary way as a source for earlier periods, are now increasingly studied in their own right. The 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 historical vision. This collection reveals the writings of Plutarch as the product of a single, extraordinarily capacious intelligence. The book should be of interest to students of Greek and Roman philosophy, literary style, historiography and politics.

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À propos de l'auteur

Judith Mossman is Professor Emerita at Coventry University. She specialises in Greek literature of the fifth century BC and the second/third century AD and is the author of two books and multiple edited volumes and articles on Euripides and Plutarch. She is currently Professor Emerita of Classics at Coventry University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0715627783
• ISBN 13: 9780715627785
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 249
• Éditeur: Mossman Judith
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• Personne responsable: non disponible