Plutarch and the historical tradition / / edited by Philip A. Stadter

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (197 p.)
• Disciplina: 920.038
• Soggetto topico: Biography as a literary form
• Soggetto geografico: Greece Biography History and criticism; Rome Biography History and criticism; Greece Historiography; Rome Historiography
• Altri autori: StadterPhilip A
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; INTRODUCTION; PLUTARCH AND THUCYDIDES; PARADOXICAL PARADIGMS: LYSANDER AND SULLA; HISTORY AND ARTIFICE IN PLUTARCH'S EUMENES; PLUTARCH, PYRRHUS, AND ALEXANDER; ASPECTS OF PLUTARCH'S LIFE OF PUBLICOLA; PARADOXOGRAPHY AND POLITICAL IDEALS IN PLUTARCH'S LIFE OF SERTORIUS; ANTONY-OSIRIS, CLEOPATRA-ISIS: THE END OF PLUTARCH'S ANTONY; Index of passages discussed; Index of names; Index of themes and concepts
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Plutarch and the historical tradition
• ISBN: 1-134-91318-4; 1-134-91319-2; 1-280-04904-9; 0-203-07663-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808625403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II