The Statesman in Plutarch's Works ─ Proceedings of the Sixth International Congerence of the International Plutarch Society Nijmegen/Castle Hernen, May 1-5, 2002: Plutarch's Statesman an

The 25 papers cover first-century Greek biographer and philosopher Plutarch, his life, and his political activities; his presentation of statesmen; political, philosophical, and literary aspects of his statesman; and the influence and aftermath of his statesman. Among specific topics are Plutarch and Pausanias at Delphi, classical and contemporary statesmen in Praecepta, Plutarch on the statesman's independence of action, poetry and music in the life of his statesmen, the divinity of rulers and laws, the dreaming Kronos as world archon in De facie in orbe lunae, Plutarch and Apuleius, the first printing of the Lives in 1517, and Plutarchian biography in 18th- century England. The second volume contains papers on Plutarch's Greek and Roman lives. 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.