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Plutarch's ›Parallel Lives‹ - Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement

by Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S.

fromTrends in classics. Supplementary volumes

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This book examines Putarch's narrative techniques in the Parallel Lives of drawing his readers into the process of moral evaluation and exposing them to the complexities involved in making moral judgements. It thus allows a point of entry into Plutarch's praise-and-blame rhetori…