Plutarch was indisputably one of the most prominent of the philosophers and biographers of the ancient world. The papers of this book analyze from diverse perspectives Plutarch's use and reshaping of the historical tradition, under two broad and interdependent categories: biographical techniques and appropriation of sources. A wide spectrum of lives from different historical periods of Greece and Rome is examined in depth: Pericles, Alcibiades, Nicias, Lysander, Eumenes, Pyrrhus, Publicola, Sertorius, and Antony. The book offers studies of elements such as the parallelism which makes a pair...
Plutarch was indisputably one of the most prominent of the philosophers and biographers of the ancient world. The papers of this book analyze from div...
Plutarch's Life of Pericles is one of the outstanding works of ancient biography. Called by some a coward and others a boor, Pericles was a genius as a statesman. He ruled Athens like a monarch between 441 and 430 B.C., a period of great political and intellectual achievement. In the first comprehensive commentary in this century on Plutarch's text, Philip Stadter explores both the literary and historical aspects of this extraordinary work, which is included here in Greek in its entirety.
In an extensive introduction, Stadter considers the broad questions of the biography's...
Plutarch's Life of Pericles is one of the outstanding works of ancient biography. Called by some a coward and others a boor, Pericles was a gen...
A comprehensive picture of the life and work of a major figure among the Greek-speaking authors of the Roman Empire. Arrian is our most reliable source for Alexander the Great and the author of three other major historical works and a number of shorter essays and treatises. This, the first book-length study of Arrian in English in this century, makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of Greek historiography and of the intellectual life of the second century A.D.
Originally published in 1980.
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A comprehensive picture of the life and work of a major figure among the Greek-speaking authors of the Roman Empire. Arrian is our most reliable sourc...
In this collection of nine essays, a group of internationally known classicists examine from a variety of viewpoints the speeches that Thucydides inserted into the history of the Peloponnesian War. The essayists include: William C. West III, Henry R. Immerwahr, W. James McCoy, Philip A. Stadter, A. R. Rubitschek, N. G. L. Hammond, Hans-Peter Stahl, and H. D. Westlake. George W. Kennedy provides an introduction.
Originally published in 1973.
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In this collection of nine essays, a group of internationally known classicists examine from a variety of viewpoints the speeches that Thucydides inse...
