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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459821903321

Autore

Verdegem Simon

Titolo

Plutarch's life of Alcibiades [[electronic resource] ] : story, text and moralism / / Simon Verdegem

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leuven, : Leuven University Press, c2010

ISBN

94-6166-009-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (499 p.)

Collana

Plutarchea Hypomnemata ; ; v.3

Disciplina

938.05092

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-467) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

PLUTARCH'S LIFE OF ALCIBIADESSTORY, TEXT AND MORALISM; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Ancient Works; 1.1. Plutarch's Lives; 1.2. Plutarch's Moralia; 1.3. Other works; 2. Modern Works and Series; 2.1. Modern Works; 2.2. Series; Introduction; 1. Moralism; 1.1. The Moralism of the Parallel Lives; 1.1.1. The moral purpose of the Parallel Lives; 1.1.2. Positive and negative examples; 1.1.3. Non-protreptic moralism; 1.1.4. Comparative moralism; 1.2. Alcibiades; 1.2.1. A turbulent life58; 1.2.2. A controversial figure; A. Historiography and biography; 1. Thucydides; 2. Xenophon's Greek History

3. Diodorus Siculus4. Cornelius Nepos; B. Rhetoric; 1. Isocrates' On the Team of Horses; 2. (Pseudo-)Lysias' Against Alcibiades I; 3. Pseudo-Andocides' Against Alcibiades; C. Socratic Literature; 1. Xenophon's Memorabilia; 2. (Pseudo-)Plato's Alcibiades I; 3. Plato's Symposium; 1.2.3. A negative Life?; 2. Story; 2.1. The Story-Text Distinction; 2.2. Constructing a Story: Plutarch and his Sources; 2.1.1. Plutarch: a creative writer; 2.2.2. The referential level for the Life of Alcibiades; A. Plato; B. Thucydides; C. Xenophon; D. Ephorus; E. Theopompus; F. Biography

2.2.3. Plutarch's Method of Work3. Text; 3.1. Plutarch's Narrative Techniques; 3.1.1. Time; 3.1.2. Narrator(s) and narrative(s); 3.1.3. Focalization; 3.1.4. Speech representation; 3.2. The Pairing with Coriolanus; 3.2.1. The order of the two Lives; 3.2.2. Plutarch's Coriolanus; 3.3. The relative chronology of the Parallel Lives; 1The



Proem (Alc. 1); 1. An Intriguing Beginning; 2. Making a Start; 2.1. Ancestry (Alc. 1.1); 2.2. Upbringing and Education (Alc. 1.2-3); 2.3. Physical Appearance (Alc. 1.4-5); 2.4. Speech (Alc. 1.6-8); 3. Conclusions; 2A Difficult Character (Alc. 2-9)

1. On Character Changes and Innate Passions (Alc. 2.1)2. Childhood Stories (Alc. 2.2-3.2); 2.1. Three Memorable Anecdotes (Alc. 2.2-7); 2.1.1. The lion on the wrestling ground (Alc. 2.2-3[6] ); 2.1.2. Much ado about a throw (Alc. 2.3[6] -4); 2.1.3. Too proud to play the aulos (Alc. 2.5-7); 2.2. Two Slanderous Stories from Antiphon (Alc. 3); 3. How to Distinguish Flatterers from a Friend (Alc. 4-6); 3.1. An Accumulation of Contrasts; 3.1.1. The influence of Socrates (Alc. 4.1-4 and Alc. 6); 3.1.2. Two ways to treat your lover (Alc. 4.5-5.5); 3.2. An Accumulation of Material

3.2.1. The influence of (pseudo-)Plato3.2.2. Alc. 4-6 and other Plutarchan writings; A. De ad. et am. 68c-71d; B. De aud. 46c-47b; C. Amat. 762b-f; 3.2.3. Four other elements; 4. Sayings and Doings of a Young Adult (Alc. 7-9); 4.1. Three Anecdotes (Alc. 7.1-3[8]); 4.1.1. Teaching two teachers a lesson (Alc. 7.1-2); 4.1.2. A question for Pericles (Alc. 7.3[4-8] ); 4.2. On the Battlefield (Alc. 7.3[9]-6); 4.3. Violence, Greed, and Marriage (Alc. 8); 4.4. A Wonderful Tale (Alc. 9); 5. Conclusions; 5.1. Plutarch's Sources; 5.2. Alcibiades' Character; 5.3. The Structure of the Text

5.4. The Reader's Appraisal

Sommario/riassunto

At the beginning of the second century AD, Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on important ethical issues and to use the example of these great men from the past to improve his or her own conduct. This book offers the first full-scale commentary on the Life of Alcibiades. It examines how Plutarch's biography of one of classical Athens' most controversial politicians functions within the moral programme of the Parallel Lives. Built upon the narratological distinction between story an



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143287203321

Titolo

Management of shared fish stocks [[electronic resource] /] / edited by A.I.L. Payne, C.M. O'Brien, and S.I. Rogers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, UK, : Blackwell Pub.

Ames, Iowa, : Iowa State Press, 2004

ISBN

0-470-99992-6

1-280-28544-3

9786610285440

0-470-79516-6

0-470-99993-4

1-4051-2867-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (381 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PayneA. I. L <1946-> (Andrew I. L.)

O'BrienC. M (Carl M.)

RogersS. I (Stuart I.)

Disciplina

333.95/6

639.8

Soggetti

Fish populations

Fishery management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Management of Shared Fish Stocks; Contents; Foreword; List of participants; Deterring IUU Fishing; Development of an estimation system for U.S. longline discard estimates of bluefin tuna; Problems of herring assessment and management in the Baltic Sea; Relationships between fishing gear, size frequency and reproductive patterns for the kingfish (Scomberomorus commerson Lacépède) fishery in the Gulf of Oman; The Management of Transboundary Stocks of Toothfish, Dissostichus spp., under the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

On the management of shared fish stocks: critical issues and international initiatives to address themA review of Mediterranean



shared stocks, assessment and management; The experience of Antarctic whaling; Transboundary issues in the purse-seine, trawl and crustacean fisheries of the Southeast Atlantic; Allocation in high seas fisheries: avoiding meltdown; Management of shared Baltic fishery resources; The Southwest Atlantic;  achievements of bilateral management and the case for a multilateral arrangement

The whole could be greater than the sum of the parts: the potential benefits of cooperative management of the Caribbean spiny lobsterOn the assessment and management of local herring stocks in the Baltic; Fish, fisheries and dolphins as indicators of ecosystem health along the Georgian coast of the Black Sea; The role and determination of residence proportions for fisheries resources across political boundaries: the Georges Bank example; Integrating climate variation and change into models of fisheries yield, with an example based upon the southern Newfoundland (NAFO Subdivision 3Ps) cod

Measuring fish behaviour: the relevance to the managed exploitation of shared stocksThe rise and fall of cod (Gadus morhua, L.) in the North Sea; Managing Arabian Gulf sailfish - issues of transboundary migration; Reports of Discussion Groups:; 1. International approaches to management of shared stocks: fisheries, management and external driver issues; 2. International approaches to management of shared stocks: ecosystems, competition and behavioural issues; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Celebrating the centenary of the Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) Fisheries Research Laboratory at Lowestoft, UK, this peer-reviewed, edited tome discusses four interwoven themes: · The consequences and management of unregulated/unreported catches· Competition· External drivers and resource behaviour · Ecosystems and migration  With contributions from fisheries scientists, policy-makers and managers from more than twenty countries, this international volume has evolved from the CEFAS symposium on International Approaches to Managem



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Record Nr.

UNIORUON00167981

Titolo

Taiwan Review

Pubbl/distr/stampa

v

ISSN

1608-702X

1727-5148

Edizione

[Vol. 53]

Descrizione fisica

27 cm

Classificazione

TW

DONO

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Mensile. - Versione online.