Plutarch's Life of Caesar deals with the best known Roman of them all, Julius Caesar, and covers virtually all of the major events of the last generation of the Republic. Pelling's volume gives a new translation of the Life, together with an introduction and commentary, while also acknowledging the literary aspects of the narrative.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Maps
Abbreviations
Introduction
1: Plutarch and the Caesars
2: TheLife of Caesar
a) Biography and History
b) Alexander and Caesar: Pair and Series
3: Sources and Methods
a) Gathering the Material
b) The Sources
c) Remoulding the Material
4: Plutarch and Roman Politics
5: Caesar and Julius Caesar: Plutarch and Shakespeare
Christopher Pelling is Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University.
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"A profoundly rich book ... An awful, that is awe-filling, exemplar of how decades of excellent scholarship have produced a book that will be in use for many decades, and generations, to come."--Brad L. Cook, Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews
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