Duff, Timothy E. — Plutarch's Lives: Exploring Virtue and Vice

Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 2005. Reprint Edition . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear beyond the "OUP" ink-stamped along bottom edge and the very light dust-soiling along bottom edge. From the publisher's blurb, "This book demonstrates that the Parallel Lives of Plutarch (c. AD 45-120) are far more than simply `sources' for history. A vast retrospective series of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen, written when Greece was under Roman rule, they aim both to inculcate in the reader the virtues of Greek philosophy and to champion the supremacy of Greek culture against a dominant Rome. As Dr Duff argues, they explore and challenge issues of psychology, education, morality, and cultural identity." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xx [1], 2-425 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine