Eran Almagor

Plutarch and the Persica (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Bridges the gap between Plutarch Studies and Achaemenid Studies through analysis of key textsThis book addresses two historical mysteries. The first is the content and character of the fourth century BCE Greek works on the Persian Achaemenid Empire treatises called the Persica. The second is the method of work of the second century CE biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea (CE 45-120) who used these works to compose his biographies, in particular the Life of the Persian king Artaxerxes.By dealing with both issues simultaneously, Almagor proposes a new way of approaching the two 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. Intended for both scholars and students of the Achaemenid Empire and Greek imperial literature, this book bridges the two worlds and two important branches of scholarship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748645565
• Artikelnr.: 72430717

Autorenporträt

Eran Almagor is the author of papers and chapters on the history of the Achaemenid Empire, its image in Greek literature (Ctesias in particular), and on Greek Imperial writers, particularly Strabo and Josephus. Among his major interests are the writings of Plutarch, especially the Lives and the reception of antiquity in modern popular culture.

Inhaltsangabe

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