Plutarch's Lives

Name: Plutarch's Lives
Price: 440 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Tim Duff

Exploring Virtue and Vice

Gebonden Engels 2000 9780198150589

€ 440,–

In winkelwagen

Levertijd ± 11 werkdagen

Gratis verzonden

Samenvatting

This book demonstrates that the Parallel Lives of Plutarch (c. AD 45-120) are far more than simply `sources' for history. A vast retrospective series of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen, written when Greece was under Roman rule, they aim both to inculcate in the reader the virtues of Greek philosophy and to champion the supremacy of Greek culture against a dominant Rome. As Dr Duff argues, they explore and challenge issues of psychology, education, morality, and cultural identity.