Plutarch: Life of Antony (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) - Hardcover
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Plutarch's Life of Antony is a work remarkable for its colourful narrative and vivid characterisation of Antony and Cleopatra. This book presents the Greek text of the Life, accompanied by an extensive introduction and a detailed commentary. Dr Pelling is concerned throughout to discuss the work as literature. The introduction sets the life in its historical and literary context and the commentary pays particular attention to discussing the value of Plutarch's narrative as a historical source for the period and to explaining points of linguistic difficulty. An especially interesting and friutful approach used by Dr Pelling is to compare the work with Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (which was almost wholly based to Plutarch's Life), bringing out how much Shakespeare's conception of the character and destiny of his protagonists owes to Plutarch, and tracing its transposition into dramatic form. Intended primarily as a textbook for undergraduate students, this edition will nevertheless be of interest to all Greek scholars, to ancient historians, and also the students of English literature since the relevant discussions require no knowledge of Greek.
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Plutarch's Life of Antony is a work remarkable for its colourful narrative and vivid characterisation of Antony and Cleopatra. This book presents the Greek text of the Life, accompanied by an extensive introduction and a detailed commentary. Dr Pelling is concerned throughout to discuss the work as literature.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0521240662
- ISBN 13 9780521240666
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages352
- EditorPelling C. B. R.
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / London, 1988
ISBN 10: 0521240662
ISBN 13: 9780521240666
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Hardcover. grey boards w/ gilt spine printing. book xiii, 338 pgs. green & neon yellow dustjacket; plastic cover. From a college library. Pages have been inspected and appear clean, but, may have instances of marginalia, notations, etc. Remains very tightly bound. "Pelling presents the Greek text of Plutarch's Life of Antony, a work remarkable for its colorful narrative and vivid characterization of Antony and Cleopatra. Although mostly concerned with the literary merit of the Life, the text is accompanied by an extensive introduction that sets the work in its historical perspective and by detailed commentary that explains points of linguistic difficulty. Especially interesting is Pelling's discussion of the influence of the Life on Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, whose conception of the character and destiny of its protagonist is almost wholly shaped by Plutarch's work."--WorldCat. VG (ex-library w/ stamps to textblock edges, internal stamps, usual markings, etc. dustjacket has ID to lower spine; taped to cover edges; plastic scuffed). Seller Inventory # 186055
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