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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1992.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 the lives. Others consider the selecting, combining, simplifying, and enlarging employed in composition. The construction of a Plutarchian life, the essays demonstrate, required careful selection and creative reworking of the historical material available. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 187 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 020307663X 9780203076637 9780415070072 0415070074 9786610049042 6610049041 9781134913190 1134913192 9781134913145 1134913141 9781134913183 1134913184 9780415513333 0415513332 1280049049 9781280049040 |