Plutarch's Cities

Plutarch''s Cities is the first comprehensive attempt to assess the significance of the polis in Plutarch''s works from several perspectives, namely the polis as a physical entity, a lived experience, and a source of inspiration, the polis as a historical and sociopolitical unit, the polis as a theoretical construct and paradigm to think with. The book''s multifocal and multi-perspectival examinat...