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Theater and Politics in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives


Free Download Theater and Politics in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives (Brill’s Plutarch Studies) by RaphaĆ«la Dubreuil
English | November 9, 2023 | ISBN: 9004681736 | True PDF | 301 pages | 63.3 MB
The first major work to uncover Plutarch’s deliberate and sophisticated use of theatrical imagery in the Parallel Lives as a means to explore the mechanisms and ethics of politics and civic life across Greco-Roman history.

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Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-roman Religion, Jews and Christians


Free Download Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-roman Religion, Jews and Christians (Brill’s Plutarch Studies) by Frederick E. Brenk, edited by Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
English | May 4, 2023 | ISBN: 9004531955 | True PDF | 362 pages | 3 MB
Frederick Brenk has devoted a scholarly lifetime to explicating the complexities of Plutarch’s thought. Plutarch has been his intellectual interlocutor for over fifty years: in this time Brenk has produced a stream of brilliantly lucid, provocative and wise studies.

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Plutarch Demosthenes and Cicero


Free Download Andrew Lintott, "Plutarch: Demosthenes and Cicero"
English | 2013 | pages: 205 | ISBN: 0199699720, 0199699712 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Plutarch’s Lives have been popular reading from antiquity to the present day, combining engaging biographical detail with a strong underlying moral purpose. The Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero are an unusual pair in that they are about unmilitary men who, while superb technically as orators, were both in the end political failures, crushed by the military power which dominated their world.

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Plutarch Demosthenes and Cicero


Free Download Andrew Lintott, "Plutarch: Demosthenes and Cicero"
English | 2013 | pages: 205 | ISBN: 0199699720, 0199699712 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Plutarch’s Lives have been popular reading from antiquity to the present day, combining engaging biographical detail with a strong underlying moral purpose. The Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero are an unusual pair in that they are about unmilitary men who, while superb technically as orators, were both in the end political failures, crushed by the military power which dominated their world.

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