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Plutarch's politics : between city and empire
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Recasts Plutarch's Lives as a work of political philosophy emerging from the imperial encounter of Greece and Rome.
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- Creator
- Hugh Liebert (US Military Academy, West Point, New York)
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2016
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 264 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781316793831, 1316793834, 9781316602669, 9781107148789, 1316602664, 1107148782, 9781316563120
- OCLC
- ocn948562173
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-255) and index.
- Part I; 2. Ancients and Moderns; 1. The Decline and Renaissance of Classicism; 2. Plutarch's World; 3. The Parallel Lives as Political Philosophy; 4. The Politics of the Parallel Lives; -- 3. Ambition and Political Form; 1. Empire and Liberalism; 2. Democratic Honor; 3. The Idea of Political Form --
- Part II; 4. Lives. 1. The Last Spartan 2. The Life as Portrait; 3. Sparta and Rome; 4. The Last Roman -- 5. Lycurgus's Sparta; 1. Plutarch's Interlocutors; 2. The Birth of Sparta; 3. The Spartan Crisis; 4. Rebirth -- 6. Numa's Rome; 1. The Roman Stasis; 2. Philosophia and Philotimia; 3. Numa's Political Theology; 4. Pythagorean Politics; 5. The Twilight of Janus -- 7. Parallels; 1. Parallelism and Pugilism; 2. Spartan Philosophy -- 8. Conclusion; 1. Polis and Politeia; 2. A Political Science Altogether New; 3. The Renaissance of Spartan Philosophy; Bibliography; Index