Essays on Plutarch's Lives

By: Scardigili

This volume brings together the work of a wide range of international scholars on the most important themes in Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives The essays include contributions on Plutarch's life and cultural milieu; his methodology; the chronological order of composition and the cross-references from one Life to another; the possibility that several biographies were edited simultaneously; the methods Plutarch adopted to summarize his own reading and research; the choice of subjects and of sources; his compositional techniques; and the criteria for selecting the Greek and Roman pairs.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198140762
• ISBN13: 9780198140764
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.8"