A Commentary on Plutarch's Life of Agesilaos: Response to Sources in the Presentation of Character

ISBN-13: 9780198150732 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 528 str.

Plutarch;Plutarch; D. R. Shipley

Opis

Shipley presents the first modern commentary on Plutarch's Life of Agesilaos (c.444-360 BC) together with the full Greek text and a bibliography. Plutarch's biographies have long been valued for their literary, philosophic, and historiographic content, and the Life of Agesilaos, king of Sparta for forty years after the Peloponnesian war, has special interest as an introduction to Greek history, society, and culture in the fourth century.

Recenzje

excellent study ... Shipley's extensive and insightful observations encompass an uncommonly broad range of matters interpretive, stylistic, lexical, literary, and historical ... Shipley's study will be of interest exclusively to Plutarchists and Greek historians, but for them it will be of great and enduring value.