Plutarch's pragmatic biographies : : lessons for statesmen and generals in The parallel lives / / edited by Susan G. Jacobs.
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, the success...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017] |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 471 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.