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Juchnevičienė, Nijolė. "The Lives of Women in Plutarch’s Lives." Literatūra 62, no. 3 (2020): 31–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/litera.2020.3.3.

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Plutarch’s works often serve as a starting point for feminist criticism – the writer is called both a feminist who surpassed his times and a spokesperson for the traditional patriarchal society who sees women as passive and inferior to men. Others are certain that Plutarch hates women and atributes all possible character flaws to them. According to some, Plutarch despises educated women, yet others, contrarily, state that he enjoyed the company of educated women no less than that of educated men. Such a vast range of different expert opinions may be due to Plutarch’s vast literary legacy as we

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Warren, Lunette. "Reading Plutarch’s Women: Moral Judgement in the Moralia and Some Lives." Ploutarchos 15 (October 30, 2018): 97–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/0258-655x_15_6.

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Plutarch has two distinct bodies of work: the Moralia and the Lives. Increasingly, however, questions about the unity of Plutarch’s work as a whole have been raised, and it has become of some concern to scholars of ancient biography to establish the level of philosophical content in the Lives. A comparative study of the women of the Lives and those in the Moralia may provide some insight into Plutarch’s greater philosophical project and narrative aims. Plutarch’s writings on and for women in the Conjugalia praecepta, Mulierum virtutes, Amatorius, De Iside et Osiride, and Consolatio ad uxorem l

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Sansone, David. "Reflections on Plutarch’s Lives of Aemilius Paullus and Timoleon." Ploutarchos 21 (December 28, 2024): 99–132. https://doi.org/10.14195/0258-655x_21_4.

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Plutarch opens the Lives of Aemilius Paullus and Timoleon with a metaphor comparing his writing of biographies to a mirror in which he contemplates his own life. This is the only time in the Lives he uses this metaphor. The paper seeks to relate this image to the fact that, apparently for the first time, Plutarch has placed the Life of his Greek hero after that of the Roman. It is suggested that this reversal of his usual practice, combined with several subtle indications throughout the pair of Lives, indicates Plutarch’s greater sympathy for, and even identification with, Timoleon, despite hi

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Ładoń, Tomasz. "Obraz wojny domowej z lat 83-82 przed Chr. w Żywocie Lucjusza Korneliusza Sulli Plutarcha z Cheronei." Argument: Biannual Philosophical Journal 7, no. 2 (2017): 247–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.24917/20841043.7.2.4.

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An image of the civil war of the years 83–82 BCE in Plutarch’s the Life of Sulla The author of this article is interested in how Plutarch of Chaeronea created the picture of the Sullan War in Parallel lives, especially in the Life of Lucius Cornelius Sulla. Firstly, the author notes that in presenting the civil war Plutarch was dependent on the Memoirs of Sulla. But not only. There are fragments from other source too, probably the same that Appian of Alexandria used. Therefore the Author wonders to what extend Plutarch was tendentious in presenting the Sullan War. Secondly, the author shows wh

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Duff, Timothy E. "Models of education in Plutarch." Journal of Hellenic Studies 128 (November 2008): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0075426900000033.

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Abstract:This paper examines Plutarch's treatment of education in the Parallel Lives. Beginning with a close reading of Them. 2, it identifies two distinct ways in which Plutarch exploits the education of his subjects: in the first, a subject's attitude to education is used to illustrate a character presented as basically static (a ‘static/illustrative’ model); in the second, a subject's education is looked at in order to explain his adult character, and education is assumed to affect character (a ‘developmental’ model). These two models are often associated with two different forms of discour

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Hillard, T. W. "Plutarch’s Late-Republican Lives: Between The Lines." Antichthon 21 (1987): 19–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0066477400003531.

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A great deal of modern scholarship has been expended on the subject of Plutarch’s sources and on the manner in which he composed hisLives. As a result of the painstaking analyses of the fifty or so cross-references in theLives, a rough order in which they were probably written can now be descried and this has been a great boon for those who would use the information therein for historical purposes. As regards thoseLivesdealing with the luminaries of the late Republic, it can be said that theLucullusand probably theSertoriuswere among the first four sets to be written, that theCiceroappeared wi

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Roskam, Geert. "Plutarch's demiurgic moralism in his Theseus–Romulus." Acta Classica 66, no. 1 (2023): 139–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/acl.2023.a914050.

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ABSTRACT: This article deals with the tension between two points of interest in Plutarch's Theseus–Romulus . On the one hand, the pair is part and parcel of the Parallel Lives and should thus be understood in light of their 'zetetic moralism'. On the other hand, Plutarch pays much attention to questions of historical criticism, not only in the two biographies but even in the programmatic proem. These two issues, and their mutual relation and interplay, are examined against the background of Plutarch's Platonism (particularly his reception of the Timaeus ). The task which Plutarch has set himse

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Chulp, James T. "Plutarch’s Life of Crassus and the Roman Lives." Scripta Classica Israelica 32 (March 31, 2020): 107–21. https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v32i.2741.

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Plutarch's Crassus appears to be a very weak Life, especially when considered alongside the other Lives of the Late Republic. This paper examines the relationship between Crassus and the other five Lives with which C. B. R. Pelling argues it was very probably composed -- Caesar, Pompey, Cato Minor, Brutus, and Antony. Crassus appears to have been an afterthought by Plutarch, but it does contribute in a significant way to the scope of the later Roman Lives.

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Kampianaki, Theofili. "Plutarch's Lives in the Byzantine chronographic tradition: the chronicle of John Zonaras." Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 41, no. 1 (2017): 15–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/byz.2016.26.

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This article focuses on the presence of material from Plutarch's Lives in Byzantine chronicles, particularly that of John Zonaras, the only chronicler to draw heavily on Plutarch's biographies. Zonaras’ strong appreciation of Plutarch is evident when he repeatedly digresses from the main narrative to incorporate Plutarchean material related to secondary topics. His method of selection from Plutarch's Roman Lives is governed by particular principles: Zonaras’ individual literary tastes, as well as those of his contemporary audience, and the adaptation of Plutarch's material to the Byzantine soc

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Nikolaidis, Anastasios. "Quaestiones Convivales: Plutarch’s Sense of Humour as Evidence of his Platonism." Philologus 163, no. 1 (2019): 110–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/phil-2017-0029.

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AbstractGiven Plutarch’s fragmentary piece on Aristophanes and Menander (Mor. 853A–854D), a piece of Table Talk on almost the same topic (Mor. 711A–713F) and various attacks on comic poets scattered through the Lives, one might believe that Plutarch is a staid, conservative and humourless author. But several other instances in his writings reveal a playful, facetious, witty and humorous Plutarch. This paper will focus on the Quaestiones Convivales, which bear ample witness to this aspect of Plutarch’s personality and authorial technique. It will examine the ways in which he introduces and desc

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Plutarch. – Lives"

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Duff, Tim. "Plutarch's "lives" : exploring virtue and vice /." Oxford [u.a.] : Clarendon Press, 1999. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0606/98040794-d.html.

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Duff, T. E. "Moralising in the Parallel Lives of Plutarch." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.598667.

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The focus of my thesis is this question: in what ways are Plutarch's <i>Lives</i> moralising texts? My contention is that the <i>Lives</i> are moralistic, but it is a moralism which does not simply affirm the norms of Plutarch's society and Plutarch's own value-system; rather it is, in some <i>Lives</i> at least, exploratory and challenging. A second contention is that the Lives must be read in the pairs in which they were published. The first part of my thesis includes a theoretical analysis of the place of moralising within the ancient historiographical tradition, and an exposition of Plutar

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Lucchesi, Michele Alessandro. "Plutarch on Sparta : cultural identities and political models in the Plutarchan macrotext." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5581f70d-9333-4d89-b483-bc996171761d.

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Can we consider Plutarch's Parallel Lives a historical work? Can we read them as a unitary series? These are the initial questions that this thesis poses and that are investigated in the Introduction, five main Chapters, and the Conclusion. In the Introduction, a preliminary status quaestionis about ancient biography is presented before clarifying the methodology adopted for reading the Parallel Lives as a unitary historical work and the reasons for choosing the Lives of Lycurgus, Lysander, and Agesilaus as the case studies to examine in detail. Chapter 1 discusses the historiographical princi

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Duff, Timothy Elliott. "Signs of the soul : moralising in the parallel lives of Plutarch." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321169.

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Oliver, Devin. "Military leadership in Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives'." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31539.

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This dissertation is a study of Plutarch's portrayal of military leadership in his Parallel Lives. I investigate Plutarch's use of extended military narrative to provide examples of good generalship for his readers, his conception of the importance and dangers of a military education, his attitude toward the moral use of deception in warfare, and the importance of synkrisis to the reader's final assessment of a general's military ability. I conclude with a case study of the Pyrrhus-Marius, in which I examine how Plutarch uses military narrative throughout the pair to compare the generalship of

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Dubreuil, Raphaëla Jane. "Theatrica and political action in Plutarch's Parallel Lives." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/23432.

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This thesis explores Plutarch’s use of metaphors and similes of the theatre in order to represent, explore and criticise political action in his Parallel Lives. Most of the studies available on Plutarch’s use of the theatre have tended to address his understanding and employment of the tragic, that is what is defined as tragedy as a genre from the conventions of language, plot and characterisation. This approach belongs to the textual, literary aspect of theatrical production, the word of the writer, and the interpretation of the reader. Although interlinked with my study, this is not what my

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Giroux, Chandra. "Morality in Plutarch's "Life of Cimon"." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35198.

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Understanding Plutarch’s Parallel Lives as a literary text is the focus of current scholarship. However, to this date, no one has looked at Plutarch’s Life of Cimon to analyze what it reveals about morality. My thesis endeavours to understand how Plutarch shapes Cimon as a literary character to bring to light the moral focus of this Life. It first investigates Plutarch’s life and the atmosphere in which he lived to understand what influenced his writing. Chapter One follows with a discussion of the composition of the Lives to understand how they are organized. The insistence on reading each bo

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Martin, John Benjamin. "Post-Coloniality in Plutarch's Lives of Philopoemen and Flamininus." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7586.

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Plutarch’s Life of Philopoemen and Life of Titus Flamininus are often overlooked in favor of Plutarch’s more famous subjects. However, this biographical pair uniquely treats contemporary figures on opposing sides of the conflicts of the early 2nd century BCE: Philopoemen as the last great Greek general fighting for freedom, and Flamininus as the Roman general whose actions brought about Greece’s subjugation to Rome. Reading these biographies through a post-colonial lens reveals Plutarch’s internal resistance to the Roman subjugation. I argue that, although Plutarch does not outwardly denigrate

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Clark, Andrew Charles. "Parallel lives : the relation of Paul to the apostles in the Lucan perspective." Thesis, London School of Theology, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320124.

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Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos Stelios. "Narrative, interpretation, and moral judgement in Plutarch's 'Lives'." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d7647c1c-22c9-4c4e-95e2-c93209592990.

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In the Parallel Lives Plutarch does not absolve his readers of the need for moral reflection by offering any sort of hard and fact rules for their moral judgement. Rather, he uses strategies for eliciting from readers an active engagement with the act of judging. This study, building upon and verifying further recent research on the challenging and exploratory, rather than affirmative, moral impact that the Lives are designed to have on their readers, offers the first systematic analysis of the representation of 'experimental' moralism of Plutarch's Parallel Lives. It seeks to describe and ana

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Books on the topic "Plutarch. – Lives"

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Plutarch. Plutarch: Lives that made Greek history. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2012.

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Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. eBooksLib, 2005.

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Plutarch. Plutarch's lives. 2nd ed. Barnes & Noble, 2006.

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Plutarch. Plutarch: The lives of the noble Grecians and Romans. Modern Library, 1992.

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Plutarch. Plutarch's lives. 2nd ed. Barnes & Noble, 2006.

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Plutarch. Selections from Plutarch's Lives. Red and Black Publishers, 2009.

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Plutarch. Selections from Plutarch's Lives. Red and Black Publishers, 2009.

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A, Stadter Philip, ed. Plutarch and the historical tradition. Routledge, 1992.

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Dryden, John, Arthur Hugh Clough, and Plutarch Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives : The Dryden Plutarch: 3. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2018.

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Lives From Plutarch. Hillside Education, 2009.

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Pelling, Christopher. "Tragic Colouring in Plutarch*." In Generic Enrichment in Plutarch’s Lives. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429026966-5.

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Geiger, Joseph. "The Project of theParallel Lives." In A Companion to Plutarch. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118316450.ch20.

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Sellers, M. N. S. "Plutarch’s Lives." In American Republicanism. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13347-5_14.

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Duff, Tim. "The Politics of Parallelism." In Plutarch’s Lives. Oxford University PressOxford, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198150589.003.0010.

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Abstract In this chapter, I shall attempt to analyse the way in which Plutarch constructs Greek and Roman identities in the Parallel Lives. Central to this construction is his use of synkrisis, one of his most original contributions to the writing of the past. Much of this study has been concerned with the literary effects of synkrisis. As we have seen, Plutarch uses the two parallel Lives of a pair, with their prologue and synkrisis, to explore a set of moral themes which run across the whole Plutarchan ‘ book’ . By putting together two figures from two different backgrounds and two different

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Duff, Tim. "The Lives of Lysander and Sulla." In Plutarch’s Lives. Oxford University PressOxford, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198150589.003.0007.

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Abstract Plutarch’s treatment of Lysander and Sulla forms the second example of Lives in which Plutarch seems to problematize the moral status of the subject. Christopher Pelling recognized the problem posed by these Lives when he labelled the moralism here as ‘ descriptive’ rather than evaluative, as more concerned with pointing to a truth in human nature than with presenting a model for imitation or avoidance. In fact, although there is no simple didacticism in the text, evaluative judgements are nevertheless encouraged; the subjects are viewed from an ethical perspective. But these judgemen

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Sansone, David, David Sansone, and David Sansone. "Introduction." In Plutarch: Lives of Aristeides and Cato. Liverpool University Press, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9780856684210.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter provides an overview of Plutarch's Lives, which represent a valuable ancient source for the more interesting periods of Greek and Roman history. However, it is not as a historian, or even as a biographer in the modern sense of the word, that Plutarch has been so highly valued. Rather, those who regard Plutarch as among the greatest of ancient authors appreciate him principally as a moralist and as a purveyor of political wisdom. To understand what kind of biography Plutarch was writing (or thought he was writing), the chapter considers what the art of biography was li

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"Plutarch." In An Anthology of Greek Prose, edited by D. A. Russell. Oxford University PressOxford, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198144984.003.0012.

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Abstract Plutarch of Chaeronea (C.50-C.120 ad), the greatest and most influential Greek writer of the imperial period, lived quietly, teaching and writing, devoted to the affairs of his home city and the neighbouring shrine of Delphi. He did however spend much time in Athens (where libraries were better) and visited Italy, and he had many influential Roman friends. His surviving works (not much more than half of his vast output) consist of (i) the ‘Parallel Lives’, an ambitious series of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen, the masterpiece of ancient biography, and a mine of historical in

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Duff, Tim. "The Programmatic Statements of the Lives." In Plutarch’s Lives. Oxford University PressOxford, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198150589.003.0002.

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Abstract Plutarch claims, through his Parallel Lives, to reveal his subjects’ character and thereby improve his readers’ character. In this chapter, I shall consider Plutarch’s conception of the moralizing function of his biographies. We should note first, however, that the concept of moralism, like its content, is not transcultural. Ancient Greek has no term equivalent to our abstract ‘moralism’ or ‘morality’.

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Martin, Jessica. "Reading Plutarch, Writing Lives." In Walton’s Lives. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198270157.003.0002.

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Scardigli, Barbara. "Introduction." In Plutarch’s Lives. Oxford University PressOxford, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198140764.003.0001.

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Abstract This volume collects articles on the most important themes of Plutarch’s Greek and Roman Lives. It includes contributions from 1963 to 1990 on Plutarch’s life, milieu, and culture; on questions of programme, method, and composition; on the chronological order of composition and the cross-references from one Life to another; on the possibility that several biographies were edited simultaneously; on the methods Plutarch adopted to summarize his own reading and research; on the choice of subjects and of sources (Plutarch often shows very good judgement in both aspects); on his compositio

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Conference papers on the topic "Plutarch. – Lives"

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Бутов, А. А. "Themistocles as a Statesman (στρατηγός) and the Founder of the Naval Power of Athens: The View of Plutarch". У Конференция памяти профессора С.Б. Семёнова ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ ЗАРУБЕЖНОЙ ИСТОРИИ. Crossref, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.55000/semconf.2023.3.3.001.

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В статье рассматриваются основные черты характера героя в главном произведении Плутарха «Сравнительные жизнеописания». Во-первых, основываясь на идее Аристотеля о душе, в статье освещаются характеристики Фемистокла и то, как они могут развиваться в дальнейшем. Во-вторых, используя биографию Фемистокла, статья исследует его двустороннюю природу и мнение Плутарха по этому вопросу. В-третьих, в ней анализируется значение анекдотов и метафор в образе героя, созданном херонейским философом. В статье раскрывается образ Фемистокла, переданный Плутархом, через наиболее важные черты его характера. Она

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