Plutarch's pragmatic biographies : lessons for statesmen and generals in The parallel lives

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, t...

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Other Authors: Jacobs, Susan G. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Series:Columbia studies in the classical tradition ; Volume 43
Subjects:
Plutarch. > Lives.
Lives (Plutarch)
Biography as a literary form.
Biography.
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Biography as a literary form
Greece > Biography > History and criticism.
Rome > Biography > History and criticism.
Greece
Rome (Empire)
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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