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245 00 $aEssays on Plutarch's Lives /$cedited by Barbara Scardigli.
246 30 $aPlutarch's Lives
260 $aOxford :$bClarendon Press ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1995.
300 $a403 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Barbara Scardigli -- 1. Plutarch as Biographer / U. Von Wilamowitz-Moellendorf -- 2. On Reading Plutarch's Lives / D. A. Russell -- 3. Towards a Chronology of Plutarch's Works / C. P. Jones -- 4. Plutarch's Adaptation of his Source-Material / C. B. R. Pelling -- 5. Plutarch's Comparison of Pericles and Fabius Maximus / Philip A. Stadter -- 6. Plutarch's Parallel Lives: The Choice of Heroes / Joseph Geiger -- 7. Plutarch, Alcibiades 1-16 / D. A. Russell -- 8. Tragedy and Epic in Plutarch's Alexander / J. M. Mossman -- 9. Hellenic Culture and the Roman Heroes of Plutarch / S. C. R. Swain -- 10. Plutarch's Method of Work in the Roman Lives Postscript / C. B. R. Pelling -- 11. Plutarch and Roman Politics / C. B. R. Pelling -- 12. Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus / D. A. Russell.
520 $aThis volume brings together the work of a wide range of international scholars on the most important themes in Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives.
520 8 $aIt includes contributions on Plutarch's life and cultural milieu; his methodology; the chronological order of composition and the cross-references from one Life to another; on the possibility that several biographies were edited simultaneously; the methods Plutarch adopted to summarize his own reading and research; the choice of subjects and of sources; Plutarch's compositional techniques; and the criteria for selecting the Greek and Roman pairs. An introduction discusses the traditions of historiography which influenced Plutarch, and the background to Graeco-Roman biography, analysing Plutarch's sources and assessing how he used them.
520 8 $aAt the cusp between literature, philosophy, and history, Plutarch's biographies and these studies of them are of unique interest to scholars interested in all aspects of the ancient world.
600 00 $aPlutarch.$tLives.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79031980
650 0 $aBiography as a literary form.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014164
651 0 $aGreece$xBiography$xHistory and criticism.
651 0 $aRome$xBiography$xHistory and criticism.
700 1 $aScardigli, Barbara.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80063820
852 00 $bglx$hPA4385$i.E87 1995