Plutarch and His Intellectual World (Classical Press of Wales) - Tapa dura

This is a collection of 13 original essays on Plutarch, a writer crucial for the understanding of classical Greece and Rome. Plutarch's writings, for a long time treated in a fragmentary way as a source for earlier periods, are now increasingly studied in their own right. The essays in this volume range over Plutarch's relations with his contemporaries and his engagement in philosophical debate, his views on social issues such as education and gender, his modes of expression and his construction of argument. Also treated here are Plutarch's understanding and use of his antecedents, literary and historical, and the sophisticated techniques with which he conveyed his own historical vision. This collection reveals the writings of Plutarch as the product of a single, extraordinarily capacious intelligence. The book should be of interest to students of Greek and Roman philosophy, literary style, historiography and politics.

Judith Mossman, the editor of this volume, convened the conference of the Internation Plutarch Society in Dublin in 1994. She is also the author of Wild Justice: A study of Euripides' Hecuba (OUP, 1995).