Plutarchs Cities

Author : Lucia Athanassaki
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192676172
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Cities written by Lucia Athanassaki and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch's Cities is the first comprehensive attempt to assess the significance of the polis in Plutarch's works from several perspectives, namely the polis as a physical entity, a lived experience, and a source of inspiration, the polis as a historical and sociopolitical unit, the polis as a theoretical construct and paradigm to think with. The book's multifocal and multi-perspectival examination of Plutarch's cities - past and present, real and ideal-yields some remarkable corrections of his conventional image. Plutarch was neither an antiquarian nor a philosopher of the desk. He was not oblivious to his surroundings but had a keen interest in painting, sculpture, monuments, and inscriptions, about which he acquired impressive knowledge in order to help him understand and reconstruct the past. Cult and ritual proved equally fertile for Plutarch's visual imagination. Whereas historiography was the backbone of his reconstruction of the past and evaluation of the present, material culture, cult, and ritual were also sources of inspiration to enliven past and present alike. Plato's descriptions of Athenian houses and the Attic landscape were also a source of inspiration, but Plutarch clearly did his own research, based on autopsy and on oral and written sources. Plutarch, Plato's disciple and Apollo's priest, was on balance a pragmatist. He did not resist the temptation to contemplate the ideal city, but he wrote much more about real cities, as he experienced or imagined them.

Author : Hugh Liebert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316790959
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Politics written by Hugh Liebert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch's Lives were once treasured. Today they are studied by classicists, known vaguely, if at all, by the educated public, and are virtually unknown to students of ancient political thought. The central claim of this book is that Plutarch shows how the political form of the city can satisfy an individual's desire for honor, even under the horizon of empire. Plutarch's argument turns on the difference between Sparta and Rome. Both cities stimulated their citizens' desire for honor, but Sparta remained a city by linking honor to what could be seen first-hand, whereas Rome became an empire by liberating honor from the shackles of the visible. Even under the rule of a distant power, however, allegiances and political actions tied to the visible world of the city remained. By resurrecting statesmen who thrived in autonomous cities, Plutarch hoped to rekindle some sense of the city's enduring appeal.

Author : Noreen Humble
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589233
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Lives written by Noreen Humble and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch's Parallel Lives were written to compare famous Greeks and Romans. This most obvious aspect of their parallelism is frequently ignored in the drive to mine Plutarch for historical fact. However, the eleven contributors to the present volume, who include most of the world's leading commentators on Plutarch, together bring out many ways in which Plutarch invoked aspects of parallelism. They show how pervasive and how central the whole notion was to his thinking. With new analysis of the synkriseis; with discussion of parallels within and across the Lives and in the Moralia; with an examination of why the basic parallel structure of the Lives lost its importance in the Renaissance, this volume presents fresh ideas on a neglected topic crucial to Plutarch's literary creation.

Author : Philip Davies
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589861
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sparta in Plutarch's Lives written by Philip Davies and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch (born before AD 50, died after AD 120) is the ancient author who has arguably contributed more than any other to the popular conception of Sparta. Writing under the Roman Empire, at a time when the glory days of ancient Sparta were already long in the past, Plutarch represents a milestone in Sparta's mythologisation, but at the same time is a vital source for our historical understanding of Sparta. In this volume, eight scholars from around the world come together to consider Plutarch's understanding and presentation of Sparta, his flaws and significance as an historical source, and his development of Sparta as a resonant subject and theme within his bestknown work, the Parallel Lives. This book is the latest in a series which the Classical Press of Wales is publishing on major sources for Sparta. Volumes on Xenophon and Sparta (Powell & Richer 2020) and Thucydides and Sparta (Powell & Debnar 2021) have already been released, and a further volume on Herodotus and Sparta is currently in preparation

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Lives written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553897357
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 written by Plutarch and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus and Theseus, Numa and Lycurgus, Fabius and Pericles, and many more powerful figures of ancient Greece and Rome. The present translation, originally published in 1683 in conjunction with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in 1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes and preface are also included in this edition.

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Morals written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Plutarchus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
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Download or read book Plutarch's Lives, tr., with notes and a life of Plutarch, by A. Stewart and G. Long written by Plutarchus and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 894 pages
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Download or read book Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Plutarch
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Greek Lives written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: