Plutarch and His Roman Readers

Plutarch and His Roman Readers

This collection of essays on Plutarch's Parallel Lives examines the moral issues he recognized behind political leadership, and relates his writings to the audience of leading generals and administrators of the Roman empire which Plutarch aimed to influence, and to the larger social and political context of the reigns of the Flavian emperors and their successors, Nerva and Trajan, during which he wrote.
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