This book examines passages in Plutarch’s works that foil expectations and whose silence invites closer examination. The contributors question omissions of au
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The idea of the past, far from suggesting a nostalgic longing or an antiquarian curiosity for ages and cultures irrevocably lost, is essential to the human perc
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