An Opaque Mirror for Trajan: A Literary Analysis and Interpretation of Plutarch's 'Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata' - Hardcover
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An Opaque Mirror for Trajan: A Literary Analysis and Interpretation of Plutarch's 'Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata'
The first full in-depth analysis and interpretation of Plutarch's Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata in its entirety as a literary piece of art.
Plutarch's Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata (Sayings of Kings and Commanders) holds a peculiar position in his oeuvre. This collection of almost 500 anecdotes of barbarian, Greek, and Roman rulers and generals is introduced by a dedicatory letter to...
Laurens van der Wiel is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Warsaw. He is part of the project "Thinking of Thinking. Conceptual Metaphors of Cognition in the Plutarchan Corpus".
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