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Plutach and his intellectual world: essays on Plutarch

By Bowie , Ewen;Mossman , Judith;Plutarchus

Book information

Publisher
Classical Press of Wales;Duckworth
Year
1997
ISBN
0715627783, 9780715627785
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2236769 bytes)
Pages
249\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Plutarchus

Description

Plutarchs 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 Plutarchs 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 Plutarchs 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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