Plutarch''s Lives Exploring Virtue and Vice

Zusatztext This is an outstanding book and will remain a standard work. Informationen zum Autor Tim Duff is a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading Klappentext This book lucidly explains how the Parallel Lives of Plutarch (c. AD 45-120) are more than mere sources' for history. The Lives offer us a unique insight into the reception of Classical Greece and Republican Rome in the Greek world of the second century AD. They also explore and challenge issues of psychology! education! morality! and cultural identity. Zusammenfassung This title demonstrates that the 'Parallel Lives of Plutarch' (c. AD 45-120) are far more than simply 'sources' for history. They aim both to inculcate in the reader the virtues of Greek philosophy and to champion the supremacy of Greek culture against a dominant Rome. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I. The Moralizing Programme 2: Moralism in Plutarch's Lives 3: The Soul of a Plutarchan Hero II. Exploring Virtue and Vice: The case Studies 5: The Lives of Phokion and Cato Minor 6: The Lives of Lysander and Sulla 7: The Lives of Coriolanus and Alkibiades III. Writing in Parallel 9: The Politics of Parallelism Appendix 1 Appendix 2

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• Autori: Timothy Duff, Timothy E. Duff, Tim Duff, Tim (Lecturer in Classics Duff, Duff Tim
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.02.2002
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica classica; Saggistica > Storia > Biografie, autobiografie
• EAN: 9780199252749
• ISBN: 978-0-19-925274-9
• Numero di pagine: 446
• Categorie: European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Political leaders & leadership, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory