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Plutarch and his intellectual world : essays on Plutarch

edited by Judith Mossman ; contributors, Ewen Bowie ... [et al.]

Duckworth in association with the Classical Press of Wales, 1997

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Plutarch & his intellectual world

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Essays given at the conference of the International Plutarch Society held at Trinity College, Dublin, on 7-11 Sept. 1994

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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Description

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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  • NCID
    BA33270037
  • ISBN
    • 0715627783
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    enggrc
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 249 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Subject Headings
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