Plutarch and his intellectual world : essays on Plutarch : [conference of the International Plutarch Society held at Trinity College, Dublin, on 7-11 September 1994

"Plutarch's writings, for long treated in a fragmentary way as a source for earlier periods, are now increasingly studied in their own right. The thirteen original 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. It is a theme of the present book that the writings of Plutarch should be seen as the product of a single, extraordinarily capacious, intelligence."--BOOK JACKET A collection of 13 original essays on Plutarch incorporating his relationship with his contemporaries, his views on social issues, modes of expression and his construction of argument. Also discussed are Plutarch's understanding and use of his antecedents and his own historical vision.