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1 online resource |
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1. Rhythmic Prose in Imperial Greek Literature -- Appendix: Details on Samples in Rhythmical List -- 2. Rhythmic Prose in Plutarch's Lives -- 3. Density in Plutarch -- 4. Life as Art (Plutarch, Timoleon 35) -- Appendix: Plut. Tim. 36.2-4, Cras. 22.1, Arat. 24.5, Nepos, Timol. 3.2, 5 -- 5. Taking Fratricide Too Hard (Timoleon 5-6) -- Appendix: Plut. Comp. Aem. Tim. 41 (2).11-12, Nepos, Timol. 1.5 -- 6. Peace Pervades (Numa 20.4-5) -- Appendix: Plut. Numa 20.6-9, Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 2.76.3, Plut. Fort. Rom. 321c-d, Aesch. Eum. 902-7, Hor. CS 29-32 -- 7. What to Write under a Statue (Caro Maior 19.4-6) -- Appendix: Praec. Ger. Reip. 820b, Otho 18.1-2 -- 8. Dangerous Leap (Alexander 63.2-6) -- Appendix: Plut. Alex. Fort. 2 343d-e, Diod. Sic. 17.98.5-99.2, Curt. 9.5.1-3, Arr. Anab. 6.9.5, App. BC 2.637, Just. 12.9.5-7 -- 9. Brutus and His Mirrors (Brutus 10.4-6, 13.7-10, 29.2-3, 40.7-8) -- Appendix: App. BC 2.470-2, Plut. Sull. 30.6 -- 10. Daggers and Dangers (Brutus 1.5, 16.4, 52.1-4, 7-8; 19-20) -- Appendix: App. BC 2.487, 4.552, Plut. Caes. 68.3-6 -- 11. Surprise from Cato (Pompey 54.5-9) -- Appendix: Plut. Cat. Min. 47-48.4, Caes. 28.7, Dio Cass. 40.50.4, App. BC 2.84-5 -- 12. Mist or Smoke? (Flamininus 4.8-12) -- Appendix: Plut. Flam. 4.3-7, Livy 32.11.8-9, 12.1-4 -- 13. Terrible Retreat (Nicias 26.3-6) -- Appendix: Thuc. 7.74.1, 75.4, 7, 77.2, 86.5 -- 14. Fall of the Crassi (Crassus 23.7-24.3, 25.12-14, 26.6-9,30.2-5) -- Appendix: Dio Cass. 40.21.2-22.1, Thuc. 7.76, Dio Cass. 40.26.2 -- 15. Antigonus and the Athenians Change Their Tunes (Demetrius 28, 29.4, 30.2-31.1) -- Appendix: Diod. Sic. 20.106.4, Plut. Garr. 506d, [Plut.] Reg. Imp. Apophth. 182b -- 16. Cornelia Blames Herself (Pompey 74.5-75.2) -- Appendix: Livy fr. 45 Tal, Luc. 8.88-105 -- 17. Deaths of King and Kindred (Agis 16.6-17.5, 17.9-18.3; 19.5-21.1) -- Appendix: [Plut.] Apophth. Lac. 216c-d -- 18. Distraught Hero (Chariton 3.5.5-6) -- 19. Blase Mother (Plutarch, Cleomenes 43 (22).4-5) -- 20. Bewilderments of Joy (Heliodorus 10.38.3-4) -- 21. Chaereas Lives (Chariton 5.8.1-3) -- 22. King of Persia is Put in His Place (Chariton 8.5.5-7) -- 23. Father Struggles (Heliodorus 10.16.1-2) -- 24. Some Tears in Achilles Tatius (Achilles 6.7.3-7) -- 25. More Tears in Achilles Tatius (7.4.3-6) |
| Summary |
Greek literature is divided, like many literatures, into poetry and prose, but in Greek the difference between them is not that all prose is devoid of firm rhythmic patterning. In the earlier Roman Empire, from 31 BC to about AD 300, much Greek (and Latin) prose was actually written to follow one organized rhythmic system. How much Greek prose adopted this patterning has hitherto been quite unclear; the present volume for the first time establishes an answer on an adequate basis: substantial data drawn from numerous authors. It constitutes the first extensive study of prose-rhythm in later Greek literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Text in English and Greek |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 17, 2018) |
| SUBJECT |
Plutarch -- Criticism and interpretation
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Plutarch. Lives -- Criticism and interpretation
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Plutarch. fast (OCoLC)fst00032370 |
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Lives (Plutarch) fast (OCoLC)fst01358080 |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192554796 |
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0192554794 |
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9780191860928 |
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0191860921 |
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