Essays on Plutarch's Lives [Hardcover]

This volume brings together the work of a wide range of international scholars on the most important themes in Plutarch's Greek and RomanLivesThe essays include contributions on Plutarch's life and cultural milieu; his methodology; the chronological order of composition and the cross-references from oneLifeto another; the possibility that several biographies were edited simultaneously; the methods Plutarch adopted to summarize his own reading and research; the choice of subjects and of sources; his compositional techniques; and the criteria for selecting the Greek and Roman pairs.

The essays...offer a rich resource to the Plutarch scholar. They inform, guide, and challenge Plutarch's readers to read him within the context of his own time, with criteria drawn from his world....every student of the New Testament needs to read Plutarch, for which reading this volume provides excellent backround information and aid. --Religious Studies Review