Plutarch and the historical tradition /

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 th...

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Other Authors: Stadter, Philip A
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1992
Edition:1st ed
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