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  • Plutarch and the Historical Traditionby Philip A. Stadter

    Routledge 1992; US$ 135.00

    These essays offer diverse perspectives on the biographical techniques and appropriation of sources for the use and reshaping of historical tradition by one of the most prominent philosophers and biographers of the ancient world. more...

  • The Statesman in Plutarch's Works, Volume IIby Lukas de Blois; Jeroen Bons; Ton Kessels; Dirk M. Schenkeveld

    BRILL 2004; US$ 139.00

    The papers in this volume concentrate on statesmen and statesmanship in Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives. more...

  • The Unity of Plutarch's Workby Anastasios G. Nikolaidis

    Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 222.00

    This volume of collected essays explores the premise that Plutarch’s work, notwithstanding its amazing thematic multifariousness, constantly pivots on certain ideological pillars which secure its unity and coherence. So, unlike other similar books which, more or less, concentrate on either the Lives or the Moralia or on some particular aspect(s) of Plutarch’s œuvre, the articles of the present volume observe Plutarch at work in both Lives and Moralia, thus bringing forward and illustrating the inner unity of his varied literary production. The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly wide-ranging and the studies collected here inquire into many important issues of Plutarchean scholarship: the conditions under which Plutarch’s... more...

  • Plutarchs Vita des Artaxerxesby Carsten Binder

    Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 137.00

    The work presented here is a historical commentary on an ancient biography of one of the Persian Great Kings (Artaxerxes II, reigned 404-359 BC). The author was the Greek scholar Plutarch (c. AD 45-120). The aim of the commentary is to make the text, which was written some 500 years after the events described, accessible as a source to the modern historian. more...

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