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Plutarch's pragmatic biographies : lessons for statesmen and generals in the Parallel Lives /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Training the Politikos under Rome -- Plutarch and His Audience -- Plutarch's Concept of the Politikos -- Plutarch's Audience as Politikoi -- Political Careers Open to the Educated Elite -- Conclusion: Implications for Interpreting the Parallel Lives -- Pragmatic Literature for Statesmen and Generals -- Advice Literature -- Pragmatic History -- Individual Lives of Statesmen and Generals: Nepos and Plutarch -- Conclusion: Implications for the Purpose of the Parallel Lives -- Didactic Agenda of the Parallel Lives: Insights from the Prologues and Synkriseis -- Statesmanship and Generalship in the Prologues -- Statesmanship in the Synkriseis -- Techniques for Reinforcing Pragmatic Lessons Across the Parallel Lives -- Conclusion: Didactic Agenda of the Parallel Lives as Pragmatic Biography -- Political and Military Leadership -- Pericles-Fabius Maximus -- Introduction -- Life of Pericles -- Life of Fabius Maximus -- Insights from the Synkrisis -- Coriolanus-Aleibiades -- Introduction -- Life of Coriolanus -- Life of Alcibiades -- Insights from the Synkrisis -- Agesilaus-Pompey -- Introduction -- Life of Agesilaus -- Life of Pompey -- Insights from the Synkrisis -- Ruling and Being Ruled -- Aemilius-Timoleon -- Introduction -- Life of Aemilius Paullus -- Life of Timoleon -- Insights from the Synkrisis -- Demetrius-Antony -- Introduction -- Life of Demetrius -- Life of Antony -- Insights from the Synkrisis -- Phocion-Cato Minor -- Introduction -- Life of Phocion -- Life of Cato Minor -- Insights from Analyzing Differences -- Conclusion -- Plutarch's Project in the Parallel Lives -- Applying the Exempla -- Reception of the Lives as Pragmatic Biography in the Western Classical Tradition -- "Pragmatic Biography" versus "Explorations of Issues of Virtue and Vice."…”
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Writing history in Renaissance Italy : Leonardo Bruni and the uses of the past /
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Autobiography as a writing strategy in postcolonial literature /
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Plutarch /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Plutarch's life -- Looking for the truth : Plutarch as an open-minded Platonist -- Learning in abundance : the ramifications of Plutarch's erudition -- The complicated path to virtue : Plutarch's ethical thinking -- History as a matter for philosophy : the Parallel lives -- A close encounter with the Parallel lives : two case studies -- Reason as a mystagogue : Plutarch's view of God.…”
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Plutarch's complete works.
Published 1909Table of Contents: “…Essays and miscellanies. 3 v.--Parallel lives. 3 v.…”
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Rome and rhetoric : Shakespeare's Julius Caesar /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Caesar: mighty yet -- Brutus: rhetoric verbal and visual -- Antony: the fox knows many things -- Cassius: parallel lives.…”
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The art of biography in Antiquity /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Plutarch and his Parallel Lives: ethical biography -- 7. Ways of life: philosophers and holy men -- Epilogue on ancient and Christian biography.…”
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The household and the making of history : a subversive view of the Western past /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…How northwestern Europe was strange : marriage, households, and history -- Marrying early and marrying late : divergent and parallel lives -- The riddle of the Western family pattern -- The women and men of Montaillou and Salem Village : patterns of gender and power -- Communities in crisis : heresy, witchcraft, and the sexes in Montaillou and Salem -- What men and women want -- Interpreting the Western past with the women and the households left in, 1500-1800 -- The late-marriage household, the sexes, and the modern world.…”
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Because he could /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…Cracking the Clinton code -- Running on empathy -- Timidity, passivity, and blame : the negative consequences of Clinton's empathy -- Anger without management -- AWOL on terror : Clinton's disastrous passive mode -- Ducking the draft -- The politician and the Boy Scout : Bill Clinton's parallel lives -- Politics is not spoken here -- Fear of Hillary -- She said, he said -- Errata -- Clinton's legacy : the transitional president.…”
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