Book review: Tim Duff, Plutarch's Lives: Exploring Virtue and Vice. Oxford University Press, 1999

This really entertaining and educating book, originated in Tim Duff's dissertation from 1994, hence explores Plutarch's Lives from the viewpoint of his moral agenda, and in the manner of an engaged reader, who is invited by Plutarch and his writings 'to challenge and ponder' (309) his own perspectives and moral headlines.

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Literature Review from the year 2009 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the Ancient World, grade: B, Indiana University, language: English, abstract: This really entertaining and educating book, originated in Tim Duff's dissertation from 1994, hence explores Plutarch's Lives from the viewpoint of his moral agenda, and in the manner of an engaged reader, who is invited by Plutarch and his writings 'to challenge and ponder' (309) his own perspectives and moral headlines.