Plutarch's Lives

Exploring Virtue and Vice
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-925274-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 446 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 628 g

The Parallel Lives of Plutarch (c. AD 45-120), a vast retrospective series of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen, have always been one of the most widely read of the works which survive from classical antiquity. They were written when Roman imperial power was reaching its height, and are sophisticated examples of a renaissance classicism - linguistic, literary, philosophical and historical - which formed a Greek reaction to Roman domination. The Parallel Lives thus offer us a unique insight into the reception of Classical Greece and Republican Rome in the Greek world of the second century AD. They also explore and challenge issues of psychology, education, morality, and cultural identity. In this new study discussions of Plutarch's literary techniques and moral conceptions are combined with case studies of a number of paired Lives (Pyrrhos - Marius, Phokion - Cato Minor, Lysander - Sulla, and Coriolanus - Alkibiades). As the author demonstrates, the parallel structure of the Lives is not only vital to their interpretation but also reflects a Greek attempt to appropriate and make sense of the pasts of both Greece and Rome.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duff, Timothy E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Führung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- I. The Moralizing Programme

- 2: Moralism in Plutarch's Lives

- 3: The Soul of a Plutarchan Hero

- II. Exploring Virtue and Vice: The case Studies

- 5: The Lives of Phokion and Cato Minor

- 6: The Lives of Lysander and Sulla

- 7: The Lives of Coriolanus and Alkibiades

- III. Writing in Parallel

- 9: The Politics of Parallelism

- Appendix 1

- Appendix 2

Über Autor(innen)

Tim Duff is a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading