Plutarch's Lives : Exploring Virtue and Vice

Lecturer in Classics Tim Duff
Oxford University Press, USA
9780199252749
0-19-925274-2

This book lucidly explains how the Parallel Lives of Plutarch (c. AD 45-120) are more than mere `sources' for history. The Lives offer us a unique insight into the reception of Classical Greece and Republican.

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Rome in the Greek world of the second century AD. They also explore and challenge issues of psychology, education, morality, and cultural identity.