Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Introduction XIII
4. 1. The Formation of Plutarch’s Corpus
5. Synopsis 3
6. Lives and Moralia: How Were Put Asunder. What Plutarch Hath Joined Together 5
7. 2. Plutarch’s Methods of Work
8. Synopsis 15
9. 2a: How Plutarch deals with other genres
10. On the Problematic Classification of Some Rhetorical Elements in Plutarch 23
11. La reutilización de citas de epigramas: una manifestación del diálogo intratextual en el corpus plutarqueo 33
12. Notes and Anecdotes: Observations on Cross-Genre Apophthegmata 53
13. The Moral Interplay. Between Plutarch’s Political Precepts and Life of Demosthenes 67
14. Grecs, Macédoniens et Romains au « test » d’Homère. Référence homérique et hellénisme chez Plutarque 85
15. Moralia in the Lives: Tragedy and Theatrical Imagery in Plutarch’s Pompey 111
16. Scholarship and Morality: Plutarch’s Use of Inscriptions 125
17. 2b: Other authorial techniques
18. Plutarch’s Habits of Citation: Aspects of Difference 143
19. Why Does Plutarch’s Apollo Have Many Faces? 159
20. Plutarch’s Quaestiones Romanae and his Lives of Early Romans 171
21. How Lives Begin 187
22. Plutarco compositor de Vitae y Moralia: análisis intratextual 209
23. Plutarch’s Heroes in the Moralia: a Matter of Variatio or Another (More Genuine) Outlook? 219
24. 3. Moralia in Vitis
25. Synopsis 235
26. Setting a Good Exemplum. Case Studies in the Moralia, the Lives as Case Studies 237
27. Sempre in bilico tra vizi e virtù 255
28. Moralia in the Lives: The Charge of Rashness in Pelopidas/Marcellus 263
29. Is Plutarch’s Nicias Devout, Superstitious, or Both? 277
30. Self-esteem and Image-building. On Anger in De cohibenda ira and in Some Lives 285
31. Genres and Their Implications: Meddlesomeness in On Curiosity versus the Lives 297
32. 4. Plutarch and Politics
33. Synopsis 313
34. The Ideal Statesman: A Commonplace in Plutarch’s Political Treatises, His Solon, and His Lycurgus 317
35. Two Roads to Politics. Plutarch on the Statesman’s Entry in Political Life 325
36. The Education of Rulers in Theory (Mor.) and Practice (Vitae) 339
37. Dion and Brutus: Philosopher Kings Adrift in a Hostile World 351
38. Eunoia bei Plutarch: von den Praecepta Gerendae Reipublicae zu den Viten 365
39. Struggling with the Plêthos: Politics and Military Leadership in Plutarch’s Life of Lucullus 387
40. Greek Lawgivers in Plutarch: A comparison Between the Biographical Lycurgus and the Rhetorical Alexander 403
41. 5. Plutarch and Philosophy
42. Synopsis 425
43. Plutarch’s Life of Lycurgus and the Philosophical Use of Discourse 429
44. Boethus and Cassius: Two Epicureans in Plutarch 445
45. « 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 461
46. Plutarch and the Character of the Sapiens 481
47. Plutarch on Solon and Sophia 489
48. El Banquete de los Siete Sabios y la Vida de Solón de Plutarco : mito político y contexto literario 501
49. Las Vidas frente a los Moralia en las alusiones plutarqueas sobre Solón 515
50. 6. Literary Aspects of Plutarch’s OEuvre
51. Synopsis 535
52. Parallel Narratives: the Liberation of Thebes in De Genio Socratis and in Pelopidas 539
53. Standing in the Shadows: Plutarch and the Emperors in the Lives and Moralia 557
54. Plutarque et la scène du banquet 577
55. El trofeo de Maratón: Adaptación y desarrollo de un tópico ético en Plutarco 591
56. Recursos humorísticos en la obra de Plutarco 601
57. Some Notes on Grammarians in Plutarch 611
58. La dinastía de los Ptolomeos en Plutarco: etopeya de los personajes 625
59. Plutarco y la elegía helenística 637
60. Plutarch and the Music 651
61. 7. Women, Eros, Marriage, and Parenthood in Plutarch
62. Synopsis 659
63. Donne, cultura e società nelle Vite Parallele di Plutarco 663
64. El prototipo de mujer espartana en Plutarco 679
65. Plutarch on the Role of Eros in a Marriage 689
66. Integrating Marriage and Homonoia 701
67. Parent-Child Affection and Social Relationships in Plutarch: Common Elements in Consolatio ad uxorem and Vitae 719
68. 8. Plutarch in his Epistemological and Socio-Historical Context
69. Synopsis 731
70. Les digressions scientifiques dans les Vies de Plutarque 733
71. Pharmakon en Plutarco 751
72. Deformity (anapêria): Plutarch’s Views of Reproduction and Imperfect Generation in the Moralia and Lives 773
73. Due testi a confronto: De Iside 352F–353E – Quaestio convivalis VIII, 8 728C– 730F. 785
74. Plutarch in Crete 791
75. Plutarco (Cim. 13, 4) y las islas Quelidonias 805
76. El judaísmo en las Vitae y Moralia de Plutarco 815
77. Backmatter 831