Abstract

This is the best general book available in English on Plutarch, written by the foremost scholar at Oxford in the Greek literature of this period, containing many fresh insights, along with a clear grasp of the subject and accurate scholarship. The scope is wide: Plutarch’s life; the language; style; and form of his writings; his sources and method of writing; his philosophy and religion; the moral essays and his humanism; the nature of the Lives; and the inevitable Nachleben. The size, unfortunately, is small.