Plutarch and His Intellectual World (The Roman World) - Softcover

Mossman, Judith

 
9781914535420: Plutarch and His Intellectual World (The Roman World)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1914535421 ISBN 13: 9781914535420
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales, 2024

Synopsis

Plutarch's writings, for a long time treated in a fragmentary way as a source for earlier periods and authors, are now studied in their own right. The thirteen original essays in this volume range over Plutarch's relations with his contemporaries and his engagement in philosophical debate, his views on social issues such as education and gender, his modes of expression and his construction of argument. Also treated here are Plutarch's understanding and use of his antecedents, literary and historical, and the sophisticated techniques with which he conveyed his own historical vision. It is a theme of the present book that the writings of Plutarch should be seen as the product of a single, extraordinarily capacious, intelligence.

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About the Author

Judith Mossman is Professor Emerita at Coventry University. She specialises in Greek literature of the fifth century BC and the second/third century AD and is the author of two books and multiple edited volumes and articles on Euripides and Plutarch. She is currently Professor Emerita of Classics at Coventry University.

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Publisher
Classical Press of Wales
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1914535421
ISBN 13 
9781914535420
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
262

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