This book examines passages in Plutarch’s works that foil expectations and whose silence invites closer examination. The contributors question omissions of authors, works, people, and places, and they examine Plutarch’s reticence to comment where he usually would.
Author(s): Jeffrey Beneker, Craig Cooper, Noreen Humble, Frances B. Titchener
Series: Brill's Plutarch Studies, 10
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 307
City: Leiden
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction (Beneker, Cooper, Humble and Titchener)
Part 1. Silence and the Narrator
Chapter 1. When Hermes Enters: Towards a Typology of the Silences of Plutarch’s Narrator and Their Uses in Characterization (Almagor)
Chapter 2. Plutarch’s Narratorial Silences in the Dion (Nerdahl)
Chapter 3. The Unspoken Bridge between Philosophy and Politics: Plutarch’s De genio Socratis (Boulet)
Part 2. Silence as a Literary Technique
Chapter 4. The Quiet Life: Silence in Plutarch’s Demetrius (C. Rose)
Chapter 5. Fine-Tuning Portraits in the Lives: Omissions that Clarify the Lessons in Leadership (Jacobs)
Chapter 6. Plutarch’s Silence about the Relationship between Military Success and Political Virtue in Sulla and Caesar (Stem)
Chapter 7. The Repulsae of Aemilius Paulus in Plutarch’s Aemilius (Bailey)
Chapter 8. A Life in Pieces: Plutarch, Crassus 12.1–16.8 (Chlup)
Chapter 9. What about the Gold-Digging Ants? The Silences and Irony of Plutarch’s De Herodoti malignitate (Oughton)
Part 3. Silencing the Past and Present
Chapter 10. Plutarch’s Avoidance of Philip V (Cook)
Chapter 11. Silence of the Lions: Exploring Plutarch’s Omissions on Chaeronea (Giroux)
Chapter 12. What Your Best Friend Won’t Tell You: Thucydidean and Plutarchan Silences on Sicily (Pelling)
Chapter 13. Silencing Sparta (Humble)
Chapter 14. The Peek-a-Boo Presence of Aeschines in Plutarch’s Demosthenes (Cooper)
Chapter 15. Plutarch on the Christians: Why so Silent? Ignorance, Indifference, or Indignity? (Brenk)
Chapter 16. Plutarch’s (Unexpected?) Silence on Jewish Monotheism (Geiger)
General Index
Index Locorum
