Plutarch and the Persica

ISBN-13: 9780748645558 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 352 str.

Eran Almagor

Opis

This book addresses two historical mysteries: the content and character of fourth century B.C.E. Greek works on the Persian Achaemenid Empire, treatises called the Persica; and the methods of the second century biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea (45--120 C.E.), who based his biographies on these works, particularly his Life of the Persian king Artaxerxes. Confronting both topics simultaneously, Eran Almagor proposes a new approach to their entangled problems and offers a better understanding of both the portrayal of ancient Persia in the lost Persica works and the manner of their reception and adaptation nearly five hundred years later.

Spis treści

Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Ctesias (a); 3. Ctesias (b); 4. Deinon (a); 5. Deinon (b); 6. Heracleides, Excursus: Charon of Lampsacus; 7. Conclusions; Appendix I: Two Notes on the Cypriot War; Appendix II: Plutarch, the Persica and the Regum et Imperatorum Apophthegmata; Bibliography; Index