The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch

Herausgeber: Titchener, Frances B; Zadorojnyi, Alexei V

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Plutarch is one of the most prolific and important writers from antiquity. This volume provides an engaging introduction to all aspects of his work, treating both the Parallel Lives and the essays known collectively as Moralia. It also includes an introduction to their substantial and important reception history.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 502
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 149mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 764g
• ISBN-13: 9780521176569
• ISBN-10: 0521176565
• Artikelnr.: 64169363

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Plutarch and Biography Christophe Pellingr
2. Romanness and Greekness in Plutarch Manuel Tröster
3. Plutarch as moral educator Timothy Duff
4. In the spirit of Plato Jan Opsomer
5. Plutarch as a Polemicist John Dillon and Alexei Zadorojnyi
6. Religion and myth in Plutarch Robert Lamberton
7. Plutarch at the symposium Katerina Oikonomopoulou
8. Language, style, and Rhetoric Donald Russell
9. Plutarch and classical Greece Philip Stadter
10. Great men: leadership in Plutarch's lives Mark Beck
11. Thinking 'Private Life': Plutarch on gender, sexuality, family Françoise Frazier
12. Wealth and decadence in Plutarch's lives Christopher Pelling
13. Plutarch and the Barbarian 'Other' Eran Almagor
14. Plutarch and Animals Judith Mossman and Alexei Zadorojnyi
15. Plutarch in Byzantium Noreen Humble
16. Plutarch in the Italian Renaissance Marianne Pade
17. Plutarch and the Spanish Renaissance Aurelio Pérez Jiménez
18. Plutarch and Shakespeare: Reviving the dead Julia Griffin
19. Plutarch in France: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries Katherine MacDonald
Bibliography.