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CONTENTS 4 PREFACE 6 INTRODUCTION 7 ABBREVIATIONS 18 WHY PARALLEL LIVES? 20 PARALLELS AND CONTRASTS: PLUTARCH’S COMPARISON OF CORIOLANUS AND ALCIBLADES 42 PLUTARCH’S THEMISTOCLES AND CAMILLUS 64 DION AND BRUTUS: PHILOSOPHER KINGS ADRIFT IN A HOSTILE WORLD1 106 ASEMOTTATOS OR AUTOKRATOR? OBSCURITY AND GLORY IN PLUTARCH'S SERTORIUS 122 PLUTARCH, ‘PARALLELISM’ AND THE PERSIAN-WAR LIVES 140 A LIFE UNPARALLELED: ARTAXERXES 164 ὭΣΠΕΡ ἘΝ ἘΣΟΠΤΡΩΙ: THE RHETORIC AND PHILOSOPHY OF PLUTARCH’S MIRRORS 188 PARALLELS IN THREE DIMENSIONS 216 PLUTARCH’S ‘TALE OF TWO CITIES’: DO THE PARALLEL LIVES COMBINE AS GLOBAL HISTORIES? 236 PARALLELISM AND THE HUMANISTS 256 GENERAL INDEX 286 INDICES LOCORUM 294

Author

Noreen Humble (ed.)

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