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Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava #250: Mnemosyne, Supplements, the Statesman in Plutarch's Works, Volume I: Plutarch's Statesman and His Aftermath: Political, Philosophical, and Literary As

by Lukas De Blois

Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava #250: Mnemosyne, Supplements, the Statesman in Plutarch's Works, Volume I: Plutarch's Statesman and His Aftermath: Political, Philosophical, and Literary As Cover

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The papers in this volume concentrate on political, philosophical, and literary aspects of Plutarch's presentation of statesmen and their activities, and on the aftermath of this Plutarchan heritage.

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The 25 papers cover first-century Greek biographer and philosopher Plutarch, his life, and his political activities; his presentation of statesmen; political, philosophical, and literary aspects of his statesman; and the influence and aftermath of his statesman. Among specific topics are Plutarch and Pausanias at Delphi, classical and contemporary statesmen in Praecepta, Plutarch on the statesman's independence of action, poetry and music in the life of his statesmen, the divinity of rulers and laws, the dreaming Kronos as world archon in De facie in orbe lunae, Plutarch and Apuleius, the first printing of the Lives in 1517, and Plutarchian biography in 18th- century England. The second volume contains papers on Plutarch's Greek and Roman lives.
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This volume presents the first half of the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the International Plutarch Society (2002). The selected papers are divided by theme in sections concentrating on political, philosophical, and literary aspects of Plutarch's presentation of statesmen and their activities, and on the aftermath of this Plutarchan heritage. The volume bears witness to the ongoing, wide-ranging interest in the work of Plutarch.
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Plutarthe Statesman in Plutarch's Works, Volume 1 Volume I: Plutarch's Statesman and His Afterma
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Blois, Lukas de
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Blois, Lukas De
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Blois, L. De
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Bons, J.
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Kessels, T.
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De Blois, Lukas
Publisher:
Brill Academic Publishers
Subject:
Reference
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Ancient and Classical
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Interior Design - General
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Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava
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250
Publication Date:
January 2004
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Hardcover
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352
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