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Plutarch's focus on the great leaders of the classical world, his anecdotal style, and his self-presentation as a good-natured friend and wise counsellor have appealed over the centuries to a wide audience, persons as diverse as Beethoven and Benjamin Franklin, Shakespeare and Harry Truman. This collection of essays on Plutarch's Parallel Lives examines the moral issues Plutarch recognized behind political leadership, and relates his writings to the audience of leading generals and administrators of the Roman empire which he 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. The essays explore Plutarch's considered views on how his contemporaries could - and we ourselves can - learn from the successes and failures of the great men of the past.

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« L'histoire des grands hommes est comme un miroir que je regarde pour tâcher en quelque mesure de régler ma vie et de me conformer à l’image de leur vertu. M’occuper d’eux, c’est, ce me semble, comme si j’habitais et vivais avec eux, lorsque, grâce à l’histoire, recevant pour ainsi dire chacun tour à tour et le gardant chez moi je considère "comme il fut grand et beau" et lorsque je choisis parmi ses actions les plus importantes et les plus belles à connaître. » Tout est dit dans ce texte de Plutarque de sa rencontre de moraliste avec les héros de l’Histoire : reste, pour la critique, à en expliciter toutes les conséquences et à dégager d’abord les structures narratives qui permettent de transformer la matière historique en récit biographique et de faire apparaître, sur fond d’Histoire, une carrière et une personnalité. Par-delà la construction littéraire, c’est l’univers mental de Plutarque qui, peu à peu, se dessine, ses vues sur le passé, la vie de la cité, la civilisation, qui se confond avec la tradition hellénique désormais étendue à tout l’Empire romain. Ni passéiste, ni détaché du monde, le moraliste apparaît ainsi comme un des acteurs de la vaste entreprise de restauration oecuménique des valeurs qui caractérise le début du siècle des Antonins.

Biography as a literary form --- History in literature --- Ethics in literature --- Rome --- Greece --- Biography --- History and criticism --- Biography as a literary form. --- Ethics in literature. --- History in literature. --- Plutarch. --- History and criticism. --- Biography. --- Plutarque --- Critique et interprétation --- Lives (Plutarch) --- Greece. --- Rome (Empire) --- Critique et interprétation. --- Rome - Biography - History and criticism --- Greece - Biography - History and criticism

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This book examines the formation and development of the biographical traditions about early Greek poets, focusing on the traditions of Hesiod, Stesichorus, Archilochus, Hipponax, Terpander and Sappho. The study provides a detailed overview of the traditions and chronographical material about these poets and seeks to clarify who were the creators of the particular traditions; what were the sources; when the traditions were formed; and to what extent they are shaped by formulaic themes and story-patterns. It challenges several mainstream assumptions on the subject, for example, that the traditions were formed mainly in the Post-Classical period; that the only significant source for the legends is the works of the particular poet; and that the poets were perceived as “new heroes.”

Archilochus. --- Classical biography - History and criticism. --- Classical biography -- History and criticism. --- Greece - Biography - History and criticism. --- Greece -- Biography -- History and criticism. --- Greek prose literature - History and criticism. --- Greek prose literature -- History and criticism. --- Hesiod. --- Hipponax. --- Hipponax, fl. 540-537 B.C. --- Poets, Greek - Biography - History and criticism. --- Poets, Greek -- Biography -- History and criticism. --- Sappho. --- Stesichorus. --- Terpander. --- Poets, Greek --- Greek prose literature --- Classical biography --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Hipponax, --- Greece --- Greek poets --- Sapfo --- Sapfo van Lesbos --- Sappho van Lesbos --- Terpandro --- Ipponatte, --- Archiloque --- Arkhilokhos --- Stesichoros --- Stesichorus van Himera --- Stesichoros van Himera --- Stesichorus --- Hesiodos --- Hesiod --- Griechenland --- Grèce --- Hellas --- Yaṿan --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Kingdom of Greece --- Hellenic Republic --- Ancient Greece --- Ελλάδα --- Ellada --- Ελλάς --- Ellas --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grecia --- Grčija --- Hellada --- Biography --- Sapho --- اليونان --- يونان --- al-Yūnān --- Yūnān --- 希腊 --- Xila --- Греция --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Gesiod --- Geziod --- Esiodo --- Hēsiodos --- Hezjod --- Hésiode --- Hesíodo --- Hesiyodos --- הסיודוס --- Ἡσίοδος --- Sappho --- Safo --- Sapʻo --- Saffo --- Sapphus --- Сафо --- سيفو --- Safona --- Σαπφῶ --- Ψάπφω --- Psappho

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This volume presents the first half of the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the International Plutarch Society (2002). The selected papers are divided by theme in sections concentrating on political, philosophical, and literary aspects of Plutarch's presentation of statesmen and their activities, and on the aftermath of this Plutarchan heritage. The volume bears witness to the ongoing, wide-ranging interest in the work of Plutarch.

Statesmen --- Biography as a literary form --- Hommes d'Etat --- Biographie (Genre littéraire) --- Biography --- History and criticism --- Congresses --- Biographies --- Histoire et critique --- Congrès --- Plutarch. --- Greece --- Rome --- Grèce --- Biographie --- Biography as a literary form. --- History and criticism. --- Biografie als literair genre --- Biografie--Geschiedenis en kritiek --- Biografie--Techniek --- Biographie--Histoire et critique --- Biographie--Technique --- Biography [Writing of ] --- Biography--History and criticism --- Biography--Technique --- Public officers --- Authorship --- Prose literature --- Biography&delete& --- Technique --- Plutarchus. --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Griechenland --- Hellas --- Yaṿan --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Kingdom of Greece --- Hellenic Republic --- Ancient Greece --- Ελλάδα --- Ellada --- Ελλάς --- Ellas --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grecia --- Grčija --- Hellada --- اليونان --- يونان --- al-Yūnān --- Yūnān --- 希腊 --- Xila --- Греция --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Congresses. --- Statesmen - Greece - Biography - History and criticism --- Statesmen - Rome - Biography - History and criticism --- Greece - Biography - History and criticism --- Rome - Biography - History and criticism.

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Biography as a literary form --- Women and literature --- Plutarch --- Greece --- Rome --- Biography --- History and criticism --- Women --- Authorship --- Prose literature --- Social conditions --- Technique --- Plutarch. --- Plutarchus. --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Griechenland --- Grèce --- Hellas --- Yaṿan --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Kingdom of Greece --- Hellenic Republic --- Ancient Greece --- Ελλάδα --- Ellada --- Ελλάς --- Ellas --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grecia --- Grčija --- Hellada --- اليونان --- يونان --- al-Yūnān --- Yūnān --- 希腊 --- Xila --- Греция --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- History and criticism. --- Women and literature - Rome --- Plutarch - Lives --- Greece - Biography - History and criticism --- Rome - Biography - History and criticism