Plutarch's Lives Exploring Virtue and Vice

`Review from previous edition stimulating ... this intelligent, learned, and lucid book will undoubtedly (and deservedly) have an immediate and profound impact upon studies of the Lives. In its sensitive and nuanced attention to the texture and detail of Plutarch's writing, as well as its methodological reorientations, it raises the stakes substantially. No serious Plutarchan scholar (as they say) will want to be without this one.' Tim Whitmarsh, The Classical Review, Vol.51, No.1, 2001 `the first monograph in English on the lives for a quarter of a century ... his book length study offers an intelligent, controlled, and scholarly development of his central claims.' Simon Goldhill, BMCR. `The qualities of Duff's work are varied and sterling ... The structure of the argument is intelligent and its conclusions convincing.' Simon Goldhill, BMCR. `It is a book that will be used, as well as read, by scholars and if it succeeds in resuscitating the idea of actually reading Plutarch's corpus it will have proved itself a major achievement.' Simon Goldhill, BMCR. `Duff has done a good job in giving a solid basis for the study of Plutarch's lives.' Simon Goldhill, BMCR. `The book gains its appeal from the rich contents - a look at the index proves it - the fine analysis, the consistent approach, and the freshness of ideas.' Th.Schmidt, Les Etudes Classiques, University of Namur, Vol.68.