UID:
almafu_9961153313102883
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 502 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Ausgabe:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781009302128
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1009302124
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9781009302111
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1009302116
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9780511986451
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0511986459
Serie:
Cambridge Companions to Literature Series
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Jun 2023).
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Plutarch and Biography -- Chapter 2 Romanness and Greekness in Plutarch -- Chapter 3 Plutarch As Moral and Political Educator -- Chapter 4 In the Spirit of Plato -- Chapter 5 Plutarch As a Polemicist -- Chapter 6 Religion and Myth in Plutarch -- Chapter 7 Plutarch at the Symposium -- Chapter 8 Language, Style, and Rhetoric -- Chapter 9 Plutarch and Classical Greece -- Chapter 10 Great Men: Leadership in Plutarch's Lives -- Chapter 11 Thinking "Private Life": Plutarch on Gender, Sexuality, and Family -- Chapter 12 Wealth and Decadence in Plutarch's Lives -- Chapter 13 Plutarch and the Barbarian "Other" -- Chapter 14 Plutarch and Animals -- Chapter 15 Plutarch in Byzantium -- Chapter 16 Plutarch in the Italian Renaissance -- Chapter 17 Plutarch and the Spanish Renaissance -- Chapter 18 Plutarch and Shakespeare: Reviving the Dead -- Chapter 19 Plutarch in France: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries -- Bibliography -- Appendix: Plutarch's Moralia -- Index Locorum -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780521176569
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0521176565
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780521766227
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0521766222
Sprache:
Englisch
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