Sparta in Plutarch's Lives. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Philip Davies and Judith Mossman.
• Contents: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. PLUTARCH'S LIFE OF LYCURGUS: GREEK LAWGIVERS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SPARTAN EXCEPTIONALISM -- 2. PLUTARCH AND SPARTA'S MILITARY CHARACTERISTICS IN THE PARALLEL LIVES OF LYKOURGOS AND NUMA -- 3. PLUTARCH ON TYRTAIOS AND THE GREAT RHETRA -- 4. NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES, LITERARY ECHOES AND INTERPRETATION: LYSANDER AND AGESILAUS -- 5. EQUAL CONTRIBUTORS? AGESILAUS AND LYSANDER WITHIN PLUTARCH'S 'SPARTAN CYCLE' -- 6. A DOUBLES MATCH: AGIS-CLEOMENES AND THE GRACCHI -- 7. PLUTARCH AND SPARTAN SPEECH(ES) 8. SMELLING THE BLACK SOUP: SPARTA, MORALISM, AND POLITICAL ALLUSION IN PLUTARCH -- INDEX OF PASSAGES DISCUSSED -- INDEX
• Publisher Details: Swansea : Classical Press of Wales
• Publication Date: 2023
• Copyright Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 920.038; 938.9; Sparta (Extinct city) -- Historiography; Sparta (Extinct city) -- History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781910589861; 1910589861
• Related ISBNs: 1910589853; 9781910589854
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 14, 2023).
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