He also attempted to explain the differences in 26 The source - critical approach to the Gospels , and its extension , form - criticism , is most clearly seen in Dibelius ( 1919 ) and Bultmann ( 1921 ) . Cf. Eduard Meyer's ...
Plutarch's Lives: Life of Alcibiades
Today, the surviving text represents a treasure trove of information and insights into some of the ancient world’s most significant personalities.
With new analysis of the synkriseis; with discussion of parallels within and across the Lives and in the Moralia; with an examination of why the basic parallel structure of the Lives lost its importance in the Renaissance, this volume ...
Plutarch was born probably between A.D. 45 and A.D. 50, at the little town of Chaeronea in Boeotia.
Originally published in 1921, this book contains an English translation by Sir Thomas North of two pairs of Plutarch's famous Lives, specifically the biographical comparisons of Timoleon with Paulus Aemelius, and Agis and Cleomenes with the ...
... men shall there abound for thee. In fine, it is not easy to determine what is the truth. But of Demosthenes it is said, that he had such great confidence in the Grecian forces, and was so ... many brave men ready to engage the enemy, that he ...