Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades
Subtitle: Story, Text and Moralism
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2010
Language: eng; grc
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9789058677600
Subjects: Plutarch; Romanian literature, history and criticism
Description: At the beginning of the second century C.E., Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on important ethical issues and to use the example of these great men from the past to improve his or her own conduct. This book offers the first full-scale commentary on the Life of Alcibiades.