Plutarch and His Intellectual World
Published on 31. December 1997
453 pages
978-1-910589-57-1 (ISBN)
Description
Plutarch''s writings, for long treated in a fragmentary way as a source for earlier periods, are now increasingly studied in their own right. The thirteen original 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 vision. It is a theme of the present book that the writings of Plutarch should be seen as the product of a single, extraordinarily capacious, intelligence.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Swansea
United Kingdom
File size
2,33 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-910589-57-1 (9781910589571)
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Judith Mossman
Plutarch and His Intellectual World
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01/1997
Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
€94.13
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