| Plutarch and the Historical Tradition Contributor(s): Stadter, Philip a. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415513332 ISBN-13: 9780415513333 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $56.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - General |
| Lexile Measure: 1480 |
| Physical Information: 196 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |