Plutarch's pragmatic biographies : lessons for statesmen and generals in The parallel lives /

Plutarch's pragmatic biographies : lessons for statesmen and generals in The parallel lives /

In Plutarch's Pragmatic Biographies , Susan Jacobs argues for a major revision in how we interpret the Parallel Lives. She integrates the existing focus on moral issues into the much broader paradigm of effective leadership found in Plutarch's Moralia. There, in addition to moral virtue, t...

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مؤلفون آخرون: Jacobs, Susan G.

التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني

اللغة: English

منشور في: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

سلاسل: Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 43.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353282.

الموضوعات:

Plutarch. > Lives.
Biography as a literary form.
Greece > Biography > History and criticism.
Rome > Biography > History and criticism.

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جدول المحتويات:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Plutarch and His Audience
  • Pragmatic Literature for Statesmen and Generals
  • Didactic Agenda of the Parallel Lives: Insights from the Prologues and Synkriseis
  • Political and Military Leadership
  • Pericles-Fabius Maximus
  • Coriolanus-Alcibiades
  • Agesilaus-Pompey
  • Ruling and Being Ruled
  • Aemilius-Timoleon
  • Demetrius-Antony
  • Phocion-Cato Minor
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.