The Statesman in Plutarch's Works ― The Statesman in Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the International Plutarch Society, Nijmegen/C

The second of two volumes emerging from the conference focuses on the portrayal of the statesman in Greek philosopher and biographer Plutarch's (46-120 AD) Greek and Roman Lives. Some of the 25 papers, 19 in English, discuss general issues, and the others focus on either the Greek or Roman Lives. The topics include statesman and self in the Parallel Lives, trajectories of literacy, Alcibiades' military value and its relation to his doxa, the fortunate general Timoleon, whether Numa is the genuine philosopher king, the decline of the Roman Republic in Pyrrhus-Marius, Hellenism and Tryphe in the Life of Lucullus, and Athens honors Pompey the Great. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Lukas de Blois is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He has published on the crisis of the Roman republic in the first century B.C., the history of the Roman empire in the third century A.D., ancient historiography, Plutarch’s Greek and Roman Lives, and the history of ancient Sicily.