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Saggi su Plutarco e la sua fortuna

  • Paolo Desideri,
  • Edited by:
  • Angelo Alfredo Casanova,

The volume is a collection of 21 essays on the work of Plutarch and his fortune in the modern era, already published in classical philology and ancient history journals, or in collected volumes. The essays are grouped under topics (The Cultural Context, Politics, History, Plutarch and European Culture, Between Past and Future) and have a unified bibliography, with indexes of the ancient names and passages discussed.

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Angelo Alfredo Casanova

University of Florence, Italy

Paolo Desideri

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-5523-4961

Paolo Desideri, full professor of Roman History at the University of Florence until 2011, counts among his main interests the cultural history and historiography of the Classical world, and the Antique tradition in modern European culture. He has worked above all on the Greek writers and historians of the Hellenistic and Hellenistic-Roman age, investigating the difficult relationship between intellectual autonomy and political power in the period of the formation and stabilization of the Roman Empire. Among his writings, Dione di Prusa. Un intellettuale greco nell'impero romano.

Angelo Casanova is full professor of Greek literature at the University of Florence. He is director of the journal «Prometheus» and was four times director of the "G. Pasquali" Department of Sciences of the Antiquities. In particular, he has studied Hesiodus, Diogenes of Oenoanda, Menander and Plutarch.
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Book Title

Saggi su Plutarco e la sua fortuna

Editors

Angelo Alfredo Casanova

Authors

Paolo Desideri

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412

Publication Year

2012

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© 2012 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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Firenze University Press

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10.36253/978-88-6655-179-9

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