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1 online resource (0 p.) |
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Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies |
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Routledge monographs in classical studies.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Generic Enrichment in Plutarch's Lives: An Introduction -- Generic enrichment -- Genre -- The genre of Plutarchan biography -- Generic richness in Plutarch's Lives -- This volume -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 1: Hesiod's Didactic Poetry in Plutarch's Lives -- Theseus -- Aristides-Cato Maior -- Solon -- Galba -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Early Lyric Poetry in Plutarch's Life of Solon -- Introduction: Plutarch and early Greek lyric poetry |
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'Public' vs. 'Sympotic' Lyric Poetry (Lycurgus and the Moralia) -- Sympotic vs. Public Archaic Lyric in Solon -- Trade, travel, wealth and poetry: Solon 2.1-3.4 -- 2.1-2.8: Did Solon travel for knowledge or money? -- 3.1-3.4: Solon's 'Hedonistic' poetry -- Solon 1: Solon's homoerotic poems -- Conclusion -- Sympotic lyric fragments in Solon -- F 24.1-6 on 'Sensual Hedonism' -- F 26: Pleasures of the symposium -- Sol. 29.6-7: Solon, old age and sympotic pleasure -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Tragicomedy?: Generic Enrichment in Plutarch, Demetrius 38 and Antony 70 -- Notes |
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Referring to Thucydides: Eliding elements of the story -- Generic Enrichment in Nicias -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Plutarch's Alexander and the Definition of Ancient Fiction -- Fiction -- Character and the Purpose of Literature -- Stories -- Letters -- Chreiai -- Wonder Tales -- Omens, Dreams and Oracles -- Fortune -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Scientific Discourse, Scientific Genres and Plutarchan Biography -- Biography, science and the problem of genre -- Science and biographical metapoetics -- Science and macroscopic causation: The Life of Demetrius |
| Summary |
This volume addresses the important literary phenomenon of 'generic enrichment' in Plutarch's Parallel Lives, examining the ways in which features of other genres are deployed and incorporated in Plutarch's biographies and the effects of this on the texts themselves and readers' responses to them |
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Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Tragic Colouring in Plutarch -- 'Consistently inconsistent'? -- Tragic imaging -- It really shouldn't happen, but it does -- Sham goes before fall -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Enriching Lives: History and Tragedy in Plutarch's Nicias -- The prologue to the Nicias-Crassus (Nic. 1) -- The synoptic opening (Nic. 2-6) -- Thucydides -- Euripides -- The narrative: events prior to Sicily (Nic. 7-11) -- The narrative: The Sicilian Campaign (Nic. 12-30) -- Referring to Thucydides: Foreshadowing part of the story |
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Bibliography |
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Plutarch. Lives.
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Literary form.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Duff, Timothy E
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| ISBN |
9780429648830 |
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0429648839 |
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