Plutarch and the historical tradition /
These essays, by experts in the field from five countries, examine Plutarch's interpretative and artistic reshaping of his historical sources in representative lives. Diverse essays treat literary elements such as the parallelism which renders a pair of lives a unit or the themes which unify th...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1992.
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Table of Contents:
- Plutarch and Thucydides / C.B.R. Pelling
- Paradoxical paradigms : Lysander and Sulla / Philip A. Stadter
- History and artifice in Plutarch's Eumenes / A.B. Bosworth
- Plutarch, Pyrrhus, and Alexander / J.M. Mossman
- Aspects of Plutarch's Life of Publicola / Monica Affortunati and Barbara Scardigli
- Paradoxography and political ideals in Plutarch's Life of Sertorius / Luis A. García Moreno
- Antony-Osiris, Cleopatra-Isis : the end of Plutarch's Antony / Frederick E. Brenk.