Plutarch's Lives: Exploring Virtue and Vice

ISBN-13: 9780198150589 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 448 str.

Tim Duff

Opis

This book lucidly explains how the Parallel Lives of Plutarch (c. AD 45-120) are more than mere sources' for history. The Lives offer us a unique insight into the reception of Classical Greece and Republican Rome in the Greek world of the second century AD. They also explore and challenge issues of psychology, education, morality, and cultural identity.

Recenzje

It is a book that will be used, as well as read, by scholars and if it succeeds in resuscitating the idea of actually reading Plutarch's corpus it will have proved itself a major achievement.