Plutarch and the Historical Tradition

Buch | Softcover

196 Seiten

2011
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-51333-3 (ISBN)

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These essays offer diverse perspectives on the biographical techniques and appropriation of sources for the use and reshaping of historical tradition by one of the most prominent philosophers and biographers of the ancient world.

These essays, by experts in the field from five countries, examine Plutarch's interpretative and artistic reshaping of his historical sources in representative lives. Diverse essays treat literary elements such as the parallelism which renders a pair of lives a unit or the themes which unify the lives. Others consider the selecting, combining, simplifying, and enlarging employed in composition. The construction of a Plutarchian life, the essays demonstrate, required careful selection and creative reworking of the historical material available.

Philip A. Stadter

Contributors: Chris Pelling, Oxford; F.E. Brenk, Pontifical Institute, Rome; Brian Bosworth, Perth; Monica Affortunati, Florence; Louis Garcia Moreno, Alcala; Judith Mossman, Dublin; Barbara Scardigli, Florence

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.11.2011
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
ISBN-10	0-415-51333-2 / 0415513332
ISBN-13	978-0-415-51333-3 / 9780415513333
Zustand	Neuware