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Plutarch's Lives
Noreen Humble
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Hardcover.
"Plutarch's Parallel Lives" were written to compare famous Greeks and Romans. This most obvious aspect of their parallelism is frequently ignored in the drive to mine Plutarch for historical fact. However, the eleven contributors to the present volume, who include most of the world's leading commentators on Plutarch, together bring out many ways in which Plutarch invoked aspects of parallelism. They show how pervasive and how central the whole notion was to his thinking. With new analysis of the synkriseis; with discussion of parallels within and across the Lives and in the Moralia; with an examination of why the basic ... Read more
"Plutarch's Parallel Lives" were written to compare famous Greeks and Romans. This most obvious aspect of their parallelism is frequently ignored in the drive to mine Plutarch for historical fact. However, the eleven contributors to the present volume, who include most of the world's leading commentators on Plutarch, together bring out many ways in which Plutarch invoked aspects of parallelism. They show how pervasive and how central the whole notion was to his thinking. With new analysis of the synkriseis; with discussion of parallels within and across the Lives and in the Moralia; with an examination of why the basic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Classical Press of Wales United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Swansea, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781905125418
SKU
V9781905125418
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Ref
99-5
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