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Commentary on Plutarch''s Life of Agesilaos - Response to Sources in the Presentation of Character

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Zusatztext excellent study ... Shipley's extensive and insightful observations encompass an uncommonly broad range of matters interpretive! stylistic! lexical! literary! and historical ... Shipley's study will be of interest exclusively to Plutarchists and Greek historians! but for them it will be of great and enduring value. Klappentext Shipley presents the first modern commentary on Plutarch's Life of Agesilaos (c.444-360 BC) together with the full Greek text and a bibliography. Plutarch's biographies have long been valued for their literary, philosophic, and historiographic content, and the Life of Agesilaos, king of Sparta for forty years after the Peloponnesian war, has special interest as an introduction to Greek history, society, and culture in the fourth century. Zusammenfassung Shipley presents the first modern commentary on Plutarch's Life of Agesilaos (c.444-360 BC) together with the full Greek text and a bibliography. Plutarch's biographies have long been valued for their literary, philosophic, and historiographic content, and the Life of Agesilaos, king of Sparta for forty years after the Peloponnesian war, has special interest as an introduction to Greek history, society, and culture in the fourth century, a critical period that has received little attention in comparison with the fifth century in Athens. Internal problems in Sparta followed the accession of Agesilaos: failures of hierarchical cohesion, unrest among social and subject groups, and division between aggressive and moderate foreign policies. Plato and Aristotle, Ephoros, Xenophon, Diodoros, and Nepos contributed variously to the knowledge and understanding of the period, and Plutarch created from their evidence -- and other sources -- an independent, penetrating, and balanced account of the character of those in power, and of Sparta, at their best and in decline.

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Authors Plutarch, D R Shipley, D. R. Shipley
Assisted by D R Shipley (Editor), D. R. Shipley (Editor)
Publisher Oxford University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 29.01.1998
 
EAN 9780198150732
ISBN 978-0-19-815073-2
No. of pages 528
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies

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