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Plutarch and the Persians

Publication date: 19.12.2017

ELECTRUM, 2017, Volume 24, pp. 123 - 170

https://doi.org/10.4467/20800909EL.17.025.7507

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Eran Almagor
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Plutarch and the Persians

Abstract

This paper deals with the image of Persia and the Persians in the works of Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 45–c. 120 AD), in both his Moralia and Lives. It explores this theme under several headings: Plutarch as: (a) a Greek Imperial author, (b) an author dealing with historical subjects, (c) a biographer, (d) a moralist, and (e) a philosopher and an essayist concerned with religious themes. 

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