| A Commentary on Plutarch's Life of Agesilaos: Response to Sources in the Presentation of Character Contributor(s): Plutarch (Author), Shipley, D. R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198150733 ISBN-13: 9780198150732 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $294.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 1998 Annotation: Shipley presents the first modern commentary on Plutarch's Life of Agesilaos (c.444-360 BC) together with the full Greek text and a bibliography. Plutarch's biographies have long been valued for their literary, philosophic, and historiographic content, and the Life of Agesilaos, king of Sparta for forty years after the Peloponnesian war, has special interest as an introduction to Greek history, society, and culture in the fourth century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - History | Ancient - Greece - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 938.906 |
| LCCN: 97015113 |
| Lexile Measure: 1520 |
| Physical Information: 1.43" H x 6.22" W x 8.32" (1.74 lbs) 528 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Shipley presents the first modern commentary on Plutarch's Life of Agesilaos (c.444-360 BC) together with the full Greek text and a bibliography. Plutarch's biographies have long been valued for their literary, philosophic, and historiographic content, and the Life of Agesilaos, king of Sparta for forty years after the Peloponnesian war, has special interest as an introduction to Greek history, society, and culture in the fourth century. |