Author: Lucia Athanassaki
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192859919
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This volume 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; as a historical and sociopolitical unit; as a theoretical construct and paradigm to think with.
Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
This volume 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; as a historical and sociopolitical unit; as a theoretical construct and paradigm to think with.
Language: en
Pages: 284
Pages: 284
Recasts Plutarch's Lives as a work of political philosophy emerging from the imperial encounter of Greece and Rome.
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Books about Plutarch's Lives, tr., with notes and a life of Plutarch, by A. Stewart and G. Long
Language: en
Pages: 248
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Plutarch was born probably between A.D. 45 and A.D. 50, at the little town of Chaeronea in Boeotia. His family appears to have been long established in this place, the scene of the final destruction of the liberties of Greece, when Philip defeated the Athenians and Boeotian forces there in
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Pages: 284
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Pages: 408
Pages: 408
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Pages: 154
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Ideal Commonwealths is comprised of five writings on the ideal civilization including politics and social programs. Inspired by the philosophy of Plato and Socrates and often viewed as satirical, each essay each essay portrays an ideal form of human existence. Life of Lycurgus by Plutarch is a biography of Lycurgus,