TY  - BOOK
AU  - Liebert,Hugh
TI  - Plutarch's politics: between city and empire 
SN  - 9781316563120
AV  - JC71 .P588 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Plutarch
KW  - Plutarch --
KW  - Political science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - City-states
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Editions and abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Outline of the Argument; Plutarch Studies; Part I; 2 Ancients and Moderns; 1. The Decline and Renaissance of Classicism; Plutarch among "The Ancients"; 2. Plutarch's World; 3. The Parallel Lives as Political Philosophy; 4. The Politics of the Parallel Lives; 3 Ambition and Political Form; 1. Empire and Liberalism; Hobbes' Augustus; Hobbes' Legacy; 2. Democratic Honor; What Is Honor?; 3. The Idea of Political Form; Part II; 4 Lives; 1. The Last Spartan2. The Life as Portrait; 3. Sparta and Rome; 4. The Last Roman; 5 Lycurgus's Sparta; 1. Plutarch's Interlocutors; The Sparta of the Philosophers; Plutarch's Sparta; 2. The Birth of Sparta; Lycurgus's Revolution; Lycurgan Timocracy; 3. The Spartan Crisis; Lysander; Agesilaus; 4. Rebirth; 6 Numa's Rome; 1. The Roman Stasis; 2. Philosophia and Philotimia; Philosophoi, as Seen by Philotimoi; Philotimoi, as Seen by Philosophoi; 3. Numa's Political Theology; Gods and Lawgivers; Senators and Priests; 4. Pythagorean Politics; The Pythagorean Connection; Numa's Pythagoreanism; 5. The Twilight of Janus7 Parallels; 1. Parallelism and Pugilism; 2. Spartan Philosophy; 8 Conclusion; 1. Polis and Politeia; 2. A Political Science Altogether New; 3. The Renaissance of Spartan Philosophy; Bibliography; Index; 2; b
N2  - Recasts Plutarch's Lives as a work of political philosophy emerging from the imperial encounter of Greece and Rome
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