The Unity of Plutarch's Work

The Unity of Plutarch's Work

'Moralia' Themes in the 'Lives', Features of the 'Lives' in the 'Moralia'

In: Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies, 19

Edited by: Anastasios Nikolaidis

De Gruyter | 2008

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211665

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This volume of collected essays explores the premise that Plutarch’s work, notwithstanding its amazing thematic multifariousness, constantly pivots on certain ideological pillars which secure its unity and coherence. So, unlike other similar books which, more or less, concentrate on either the Lives or the Moralia or on some particular aspect(s) of Plutarch’s œuvre, the articles of the present volume observe Plutarch at work in both Lives and Moralia, thus bringing forward and illustrating the inner unity of his varied literary production.

The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly wide-ranging and the studies collected here inquire into many important issues of Plutarchean scholarship: the conditions under which Plutarch’s writings were separated into two distinct corpora, his methods of work and the various authorial techniques employed, the interplay between Lives and Moralia, Plutarch and politics, Plutarch and philosophy, literary aspects of Plutarch’s œuvre, Plutarch on women, Plutarch in his epistemological and socio-historical context. In sum, this book brings Plutarchean scholarship to date by revisiting and discussing older and recent problematization concerning Plutarch, in an attempt to further illuminate his personality and work.

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Anastasios G. Nikolaidis, University of Crete, Greece.

Reviews

"Der nützliche Sammelband ist dabei hilfreich, die außerordentlich vielen Facetten des Werkes Plutarchs aufzuzeigen."
Johannes Engels in: Sehepunkte 9/2009

Frontmatter Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	I
Contents Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	VII
Introduction Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	XIII
1. The Formation of Plutarch’s Corpus
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Lives and Moralia: How Were Put Asunder. What Plutarch Hath Joined Together Joseph Geiger Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	5
2. Plutarch’s Methods of Work
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2a: How Plutarch deals with other genres
On the Problematic Classification of Some Rhetorical Elements in Plutarch José Antonio Fernández Delgado Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	23
La reutilización de citas de epigramas: una manifestación del diálogo intratextual en el corpus plutarqueo Francisca Pordomingo Pardo Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	33
Notes and Anecdotes: Observations on Cross-Genre Apophthegmata Philip A. Stadter Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	53
The Moral Interplay. Between Plutarch’s Political Precepts and Life of Demosthenes Craig Cooper Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	67
Grecs, Macédoniens et Romains au « test » d’Homère. Référence homérique et hellénisme chez Plutarque Christophe Bréchet Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	85
Moralia in the Lives: Tragedy and Theatrical Imagery in Plutarch’s Pompey Diotima Papadi Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	111
Scholarship and Morality: Plutarch’s Use of Inscriptions Peter Liddel Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	125
2b: Other authorial techniques
Plutarch’s Habits of Citation: Aspects of Difference Ewen Bowie Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	143
Why Does Plutarch’s Apollo Have Many Faces? Bernard Boulet Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	159
Plutarch’s Quaestiones Romanae and his Lives of Early Romans Simon Verdegem Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	171
How Lives Begin Timothy E. Duff Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	187
Plutarco compositor de Vitae y Moralia: análisis intratextual Ana Vicente Sánchez Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	209
Plutarch’s Heroes in the Moralia: a Matter of Variatio or Another (More Genuine) Outlook? Anastasios G. Nikolaidis Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	219
3. Moralia in Vitis
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Setting a Good Exemplum. Case Studies in the Moralia, the Lives as Case Studies Frederick E. Brenk Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	237
Sempre in bilico tra vizi e virtù Jolanda Capriglione Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	255
Moralia in the Lives: The Charge of Rashness in Pelopidas/Marcellus Heinz Gerd Ingenkamp Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	263
Is Plutarch’s Nicias Devout, Superstitious, or Both? Frances B. Titchener Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	277
Self-esteem and Image-building. On Anger in De cohibenda ira and in Some Lives Luc Stockt Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	285
Genres and Their Implications: Meddlesomeness in On Curiosity versus the Lives Lieve Hoof Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	297
4. Plutarch and Politics
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The Ideal Statesman: A Commonplace in Plutarch’s Political Treatises, His Solon, and His Lycurgus Lukas Blois Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	317
Two Roads to Politics. Plutarch on the Statesman’s Entry in Political Life Geert Roskam Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	325
The Education of Rulers in Theory (Mor.) and Practice (Vitae) Sven-Tage Teodorsson Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	339
Dion and Brutus: Philosopher Kings Adrift in a Hostile World John Dillon Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	351
Eunoia bei Plutarch: von den Praecepta Gerendae Reipublicae zu den Viten Evangelos Alexiou Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	365
Struggling with the Plêthos: Politics and Military Leadership in Plutarch’s Life of Lucullus Manuel Tröster Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	387
Greek Lawgivers in Plutarch: A comparison Between the Biographical Lycurgus and the Rhetorical Alexander Elias Koulakiotis Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	403
5. Plutarch and Philosophy
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Plutarch’s Life of Lycurgus and the Philosophical Use of Discourse Benoît Castelnérac Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	429
Boethus and Cassius: Two Epicureans in Plutarch Patricia M. FitzGibbon Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	445
« Fania di Lesbo, un filosofo e assai esperto di ricerca storica » (Plut., Them., 13, 5). Plutarco e i rapporti tra biografia, storia e filosofia etica Federicomaria Muccioli Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	461
Plutarch and the Character of the Sapiens Delfim F. Leão Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	481
Plutarch on Solon and Sophia Jackson P. Hershbell Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	489
El Banquete de los Siete Sabios y la Vida de Solón de Plutarco : mito político y contexto literario José Vela Tejada Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	501
Las Vidas frente a los Moralia en las alusiones plutarqueas sobre Solón Inés Calero Secall Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	515
6. Literary Aspects of Plutarch’s OEuvre
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Parallel Narratives: the Liberation of Thebes in De Genio Socratis and in Pelopidas Christopher Pelling Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	539
Standing in the Shadows: Plutarch and the Emperors in the Lives and Moralia Rhiannon Ash Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	557
Plutarque et la scène du banquet Alain Billault Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	577
El trofeo de Maratón: Adaptación y desarrollo de un tópico ético en Plutarco Aurelio Pérez Jiménez Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	591
Recursos humorísticos en la obra de Plutarco Vicente Ramón Palerm Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	601
Some Notes on Grammarians in Plutarch Marietta Horster Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	611
La dinastía de los Ptolomeos en Plutarco: etopeya de los personajes Mónica Durán Mañas Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	625
Plutarco y la elegía helenística Rafael J. Gallé Cejudo Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	637
Plutarch and the Music Roosevelt Araújo Rocha Júnior Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	651
7. Women, Eros, Marriage, and Parenthood in Plutarch
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Donne, cultura e società nelle Vite Parallele di Plutarco Gabriele Marasco Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	663
El prototipo de mujer espartana en Plutarco Dámaris Romero González Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	679
Plutarch on the Role of Eros in a Marriage Jeffrey Beneker Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	689
Integrating Marriage and Homonoia Georgia Tsouvala Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	701
Parent-Child Affection and Social Relationships in Plutarch: Common Elements in Consolatio ad uxorem and Vitae Carmen Soares Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	719
8. Plutarch in his Epistemological and Socio-Historical Context
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Les digressions scientifiques dans les Vies de Plutarque Jacques Boulogne Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	733
Pharmakon en Plutarco Rosa Aguilar Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	751
Deformity (anapêria): Plutarch’s Views of Reproduction and Imperfect Generation in the Moralia and Lives Zlatko Plese Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	773
Due testi a confronto: De Iside 352F–353E – Quaestio convivalis VIII, 8 728C– 730F. Paola Volpe Cacciatore Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	785
Plutarch in Crete George W. M. Harrison and Jane Francis Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	791
Plutarco (Cim. 13, 4) y las islas Quelidonias Carlos Schrader Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	805
El judaísmo en las Vitae y Moralia de Plutarco Israel Muñoz Gallarte Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	815
Backmatter Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	831

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The Unity of Plutarch's Work

'Moralia' Themes in the 'Lives', Features of the 'Lives' in the 'Moralia'

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