Plutarch s Life of Alcibiades (e-Book)

story, text and moralism

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Simon Verdegem

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At the beginning of the second century AD, Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on important ethical issues and to use the example of these great men from the past to improve his or her own conduct. This book offers the first full-scale commentary on the Life of Alcibiades. It examines how Plutarch's biography of one of classical Athens' most controversial politicians functions within the moral programme of the Parallel Lives. Built upon the narratological distinction between story and text, Verdegem's analysis, which involves detailed comparisons with other Plutarchan works (esp. the Lives of Nicias and Lysander) and several key texts in the Alcibiades tradition (e.g., Plato, Thucydides, Xenophon), demonstrates how Plutarch carefully constructed his story and used a wide range of narrative techniques to create a complex Life that raises interesting questions about the relation between private morality and the common good.

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Auteur
Simon Verdegem
Uitgever
Universitaire Pers Leuven
ISBN
9789461660091
Formaat
Adobe PDF met digitaal watermerk
Publicatiedatum
April 2018
Bestandsgrootte
5530615 bytes
Taal
Engelstalig
Aantal Pagina's
499

Beschrijving

At the beginning of the second century AD, Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on important ethical issues and to use the example of these great men from the past to improve his or her own conduct. This book offers the first full-scale commentary on the Life of Alcibiades. It examines how Plutarch's biography of one of classical Athens' most controversial politicians functions within the moral programme of the Parallel Lives. Built upon the narratological distinction between story and text, Verdegem's analysis, which involves detailed comparisons with other Plutarchan works (esp. the Lives of Nicias and Lysander) and several key texts in the Alcibiades tradition (e.g., Plato, Thucydides, Xenophon), demonstrates how Plutarch carefully constructed his story and used a wide range of narrative techniques to create a complex Life that raises interesting questions about the relation between private morality and the common good.

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Specificaties

Auteur
Simon Verdegem
Uitgever
Universitaire Pers Leuven
ISBN
9789461660091
Formaat
Adobe PDF met digitaal watermerk
Publicatiedatum
April 2018
Bestandsgrootte
5530615 bytes Kb
Taal
Engelstalig
Aantal Pagina's
499

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