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Plutarch: Malice of Herodotos (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts) (Ancient Greek Edition) by A. J. Bowen; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Plutarch: Malice of Herodotos (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts) (Ancient Greek Edition) about?

The Malice of Herodotus can perhaps best be described as the world's earliest known book review. But it is much more than that, for in the course of 'correcting' with considerable vituperation what he saw as Herodotus' anti-Greek bias, Plutarch tells us much about his own attitude to writing history. So that together with Lucian's How to Write History (see Lucian A Selection in this series) it forms a basic text for the study of Greek historiography. It is also perhaps the most revealing example of Plutarch's prose style with its rhetorical variety and energy and odd mixture of good and bad argument. But in citing lost works, Plutarch has preserved valuable fragments which don't exist elsewhere and need to be assessed by all students of the Persian Wars. Greek text with translion, introduction and commentary.

Who reads Plutarch: Malice of Herodotos (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts) (Ancient Greek Edition)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
A. J. Bowen;
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Published
1992
Language
EN
ISBN
9781800346635
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, Literary Fiction

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