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Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades - Story, Text and Moralism

English · Hardback

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Klappentext At the beginning of the second century AD, Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on important ethical issues and to use the example of these great men from the past to improve his or her own conduct. This book offers the first full-scale commentary on the Life of Alcibiades. It examines how Plutarch¿s biography of one of classical Athens¿ most controversial politicians functions within the moral programme of the Parallel Lives. Built upon the narratological distinction between story and text, Verdegem¿s analysis, which involves detailed comparisons with other Plutarchan works (esp. the Lives of Nicias and Lysander) and several key texts in the Alcibiades tradition (e.g., Plato, Thucydides, Xenophon), demonstrates how Plutarch carefully constructed his story and used a wide range of narrative techniques to create a complex Life that raises interesting questions about the relation between private morality and the common good.

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Authors Simon Verdegem
Publisher Cornell University Press
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation from age 22
Product format Hardback
Released 01.02.2010
 
EAN 9789058677600
ISBN 978-90-5867-760-0
No. of pages 499
Dimensions 165 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
Series Plutarchea Hypomnemata
PLUTARCHEA HYPO
Plutarchea Hypomnemata
PLUTARCHEA HYPO
Subject Education and learning

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