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Plutarch and history: eighteen studies
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- Publisher:
- Duckworth
- Publication date:
- 2002-01-01
- ISBN:
- 9780715631287
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English
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2008-06-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Classical Press of Wales
- Copyright date:
- 2002
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The full-text of this book is not available in ORA. Citation: Pelling, C. B. R. (2002). Plutarch and history: eighteen studies. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales and Duckworth.
Book contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Plutarch's method of work in the Roman Lives; 2. Plutarch and Catiline; 3. The Apophthegmata Regum et Imperatorum and Plutarch's Roman Lives; 4. Plutarch's adaptation of his source-material; 5. Plutarch and Thucydides; 6. Truth and fiction in Plutarch's Lives; 7. 'Making myth look like history': Plutarch's Theseus-Romulus; 8. Dionysiac diagnostics: some hints of Dionysus in Plutarch's Lives; 9. Plutarch and Roman politics;
10. The moralism of Plutarch's Lives; 11. Plutarch's Caesar: a Caesar for the Caesars?; 12. 'You for me and me for you': narrator and narratee in Plutarch's Lives; 13. Aspects of Plutarch's characterization; 14. Childhood and personality in Greek biography; 15. Rhetoric, paideia, and psychology in Plutarch's Lives; 16. Synkrisis in Plutarch's Lives; 17. Is death the end? Closure in Plutarch's Lives; 18. The shaping of Coriolanus: Dionysius, Plutarch and Shakespeare; Bibliography; Index of names; Index of passages in other authors; Index of topics
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