Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789004276611
Series Statement:
Columbia studies in the classical tradition volume 43
Content:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Plutarch and His Audience -- Pragmatic Literature for Statesmen and Generals -- Didactic Agenda of the Parallel Lives: Insights from the Prologues and Synkriseis -- Political and Military Leadership -- Pericles-Fabius Maximus -- Coriolanus-Alcibiades -- Agesilaus-Pompey -- Ruling and Being Ruled -- Aemilius-Timoleon -- Demetrius-Antony -- Phocion-Cato Minor -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
In Plutarch’s Pragmatic Biographies , Susan Jacobs argues for a major revision in how we interpret the Parallel Lives. She integrates the existing focus on moral issues into the much broader paradigm of effective leadership found in Plutarch’s Moralia. There, in addition to moral virtue, the successful leader needed good critical judgment, persuasiveness and facility in managing alliances and rivalries. The analysis of six sets of Lives shows how Plutarch carefully portrayed Greek and Roman leaders of the past assessing situations and solving problems that paralleled those faced by his politically-active audience. By linking victories and defeats to specific strategic insights and practical skills, Plutarch created “pragmatic biographies” that could instruct statesmen and generals of every era
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004276604
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Jacobs, Susan G. Plutarch's pragmatic biographies Leiden : Brill, 2018 ISBN 9789004276604
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Plutarchus 45-120 Vitae parallelae
;
Griechenland
;
Römisches Reich
;
Heros
;
Herrscherideal
;
Biografie
;
Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.1163/9789004276611
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