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Plutarch and His Intellectual World

By Judith Mossman (ed.)

Book information

Publisher
The Classical Press of Wales
Year
1997
ISBN
0715627783, 9780715627785
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2236769 bytes)
Pages
453\0
Time added
2017-03-29 09:29:57
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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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