| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 187 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Plutarch and Thucydides / C.B.R. Pelling -- Paradoxical paradigms : Lysander and Sulla / Philip A. Stadter -- History and artifice in Plutarch's Eumenes / A.B. Bosworth -- Plutarch, Pyrrhus, and Alexander / J.M. Mossman -- Aspects of Plutarch's Life of Publicola / Monica Affortunati and Barbara Scardigli -- Paradoxography and political ideals in Plutarch's Life of Sertorius / Luis A. García Moreno -- Antony-Osiris, Cleopatra-Isis : the end of Plutarch's Antony / Frederick E. Brenk |
| Summary |
These essays, by experts in the field from five countries, examine Plutarch's interpretative and artistic reshaping of his historical sources in representative lives. Diverse essays treat literary elements such as the parallelism which renders a pair of lives a unit or the themes which unify the lives. Others consider the selecting, combining, simplifying, and enlarging employed in composition. The construction of a Plutarchian life, the essays demonstrate, required careful selection and creative reworking of the historical material available |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Plutarch. Lives.
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Plutarch -- Knowledge -- History
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Plutarch |
| SUBJECT |
Lives (Plutarch) fast |
| Subject |
Biography as a literary form.
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Historiography -- Rome
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Biography.
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Biographies as Topic
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biographies (literary works)
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biography (general genre)
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Reference.
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History
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Biography
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Biography as a literary form
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Historiography
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Biografias de filosofos.
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Historia antiga (historiografia)
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Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C. -- Historiography
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Greece -- Biography -- History and criticism
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Rome -- Biography -- History and criticism
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Greece
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stadter, Philip A
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| LC no. |
91024831 |
| ISBN |
020307663X |
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9780203076637 |
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9780415070072 |
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0415070074 |
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9786610049042 |
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6610049041 |
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9781134913190 |
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1134913192 |
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9781134913145 |
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1134913141 |
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9781134913183 |
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1134913184 |
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9780415513333 |
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0415513332 |
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1280049049 |
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9781280049040 |
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