Isbn: 9780715627785 - plutarch & his intellectual world: essays on plutarch (classical press of wales) (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Boards are clean. Content is clean with a stain on the front pastedown. Good DJ is clean.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Zustand: VERY GOOD. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 249pp. Burgundy simulated cloth with gilt stamped lettering. Ex-library with spine label removed, DJ spine sunned; exceedingly clean and sharp with sound binding and no evidence of use. Shipped professionally in a box. From the Ernest L. Martin collection with his bookplate. 'Plutarch's writings, for long treated in a fragmentary way as a source for earlier periods, are now increasingly studied in their own right. The thirteen original essays in this volume range over Plutarch's relations with his contemporaries and his engagement in philosophical debate, his views on social issues such as education and gender, his modes of expression and his construction of argument. Also treated here are Plutarch's understanding and use of his antecedents, literary and historical, and the sophisticated techniques with which he conveyed his own vision. It is a theme of the present book that the writings of Plutarch should be seen as the product of a single, extraordinarily capacious, intelligence.' (Publisher's blurb).…

XII/249 pp., ex-library copy with label on spine and stamps, binding slightly rubbed, else good and clean, text in English, Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 600 original hardcover (no dust jacket).