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Engaging introduction by leading scholars to the many aspects of Plutarch's numerous and varied works and their subsequent reception.
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Genre |
: Literary Collections |
Author |
: Frances B. Titchener |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 2023-07-31 |
File |
: 523 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521766227 |
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Plutarch is one of the most prolific and important writers from antiquity. His Parallel Lives continue to be an invaluable historical source, and the numerous essays in his Moralia, covering everything from marriage to the Delphic Oracle, are crucial evidence for ancient philosophy and cultural history. This volume provides an engaging introduction to all aspects of his work, including his method and purpose in writing the Lives, his attitudes toward daily life and intimate relations, his thoughts on citizenship and government, his relationship to Plato and the second Sophistic, and his conception of foreign or 'other'. Attention is also paid to his style and rhetoric. Plutarch's works have also been important in subsequent periods, and an introduction to their reception history in Byzantium, Italy, England, Spain, and France is provided. A distinguished team of contributors together helps the reader begin to navigate this most varied and fascinating of writers.
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Genre |
: Literary Collections |
Author |
: Frances B. Titchener |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 2023-02-28 |
File |
: 523 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781009302111 |
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Plutarch (born before AD 50, died after AD 120) is the ancient author who has arguably contributed more than any other to the popular conception of Sparta. Writing under the Roman Empire, at a time when the glory days of ancient Sparta were already long in the past, Plutarch represents a milestone in Sparta's mythologisation, but at the same time is a vital source for our historical understanding of Sparta. In this volume, eight scholars from around the world come together to consider Plutarch's understanding and presentation of Sparta, his flaws and significance as an historical source, and his development of Sparta as a resonant subject and theme within his bestknown work, the Parallel Lives. This book is the latest in a series which the Classical Press of Wales is publishing on major sources for Sparta. Volumes on Xenophon and Sparta (Powell & Richer 2020) and Thucydides and Sparta (Powell & Debnar 2021) have already been released, and a further volume on Herodotus and Sparta is currently in preparation
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Philip Davies |
Publisher |
: Classical Press of Wales |
Release |
: 2023-06-01 |
File |
: 233 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781910589861 |
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Sixteen original essays by leading scholars on Mary Shelley's novel provide an introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical contexts.
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: Comics & Graphic Novels |
Author |
: Andrew Smith |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 2016-08-25 |
File |
: 291 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781107086197 |
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Has any ancient figure captivated the imagination of people over the centuries so much as Alexander the Great? In less than a decade he created an empire stretching across much of the Near East as far as India, which led to Greek culture becoming dominant in much of this region for a millennium. Here, an international team of experts clearly explains the life and career of one of the most significant figures in world history. They introduce key themes of his campaign as well as describing aspects of his court and government and exploring the very different natures of his engagements with the various peoples he encountered and their responses to him. The reader is also introduced to the key sources, including the more important fragmentary historians, especially Ptolemy, Aristobulus and Clitarchus, with their different perspectives. The book closes by considering how Alexander's image was manipulated in antiquity itself.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Daniel Ogden |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 2023-12-31 |
File |
: 611 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781108887427 |
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: Bible |
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: |
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: |
Release |
: 1894 |
File |
: 484 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: COLUMBIA:CR59871580 |
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: |
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: |
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: |
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: 1893 |
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: 466 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UIUC:30112109553757 |
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Genre |
: Biography as a literary form |
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: International Plutarch Society. International Congress |
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: |
Release |
: 2004 |
File |
: 366 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015061858539 |
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: |
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: Michael Nerdahl |
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: |
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: 2007 |
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: 226 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: WISC:89094805793 |
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The modern image of the Roman aristocrat L. Licinius Lucullus (cos. 74 B.C.) is, to a large extent, the creation of the Greek biographer Plutarch, whose narrative is structured around a number of themes and leitmotifs: the protagonist's association with Hellenic culture, his luxurious lifestyle, and various issues related to his r�le as a political and military leader. In all of these fields, the depiction of Lucullus is conditioned not only by Plutarch's interests and emphases, but also by the nature of the sources at his disposal. Owing to Plutarch's biographical technique and due to the bias of the contrasting traditions underlying his account, the protagonist's actions are frequently decontextualised from their contemporary setting. Lucullus emerges from this book as an ambitious noble operating within the highly competitive system of Republican politics, and seeking to accumulate and to display power and prestige.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Manuel Tröster |
Publisher |
: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH |
Release |
: 2008 |
File |
: 216 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: STANFORD:36105129817578 |