Plutarch's Lives: Parallelism and Purpose.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed, overall very good and clean. / Leicht berieben, insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. - CONTENTS: Preface -- Introduction, Noreen Humble -- Abbreviations -- 1. Why Parallel Lives?, W. Jeffrey Tatum (Victoria University, Wellington) -- 2. Parallels and contrasts: Plutarch�s Comparison of Coriolanus and Alcibiades, Simon Verdegem (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) -- 3. Plutarch�s Themistocles and Camillus, Timothy E. Duff (University of Reading) -- 4. Dion and Brutus: philosopher kings adrift in a hostile world, John Dillon (Trinity College, Dublin) -- 5. Asemotatos or autokrator? Obscurity and glory in Plutarch�s Sertorius, Jeffrey Beneker (University of Wisconsin) -- 6. Plutarch, �parallelism� and the Persian-War Tires, John Marine�(Florida State University) -- 7. A life unparalleled: Artaxerxes, Judith Mossman (University of Nottingham) -- 8. [osper en esoptro]: the rhetoric and philosophy of Plutarch�s mirrors, Alexei V. Zadorojnyi (University of Liverpool) -- 9. Parallels in three dimensions, Philip A. Stadter (University of North Carolina) -- 10. Plutarch�s �tale of two cities�: do the Parallel Lives combine as global histories?, Christopher Pelling (University of Oxford) -- 11. Parallelism and the Humanists, Noreen Humble (University of Calgary) -- Index -- Indices locorum. - NOREEN HUMBLE teaches Classics at the University of Calgary, and is the author of well-received studies of Xenophon, Sparta and Plutarch. She conceived, and organised at University College, Cork, the conference from which this book springs. ISBN 9781905125418