In the Parallel Lives Plutarch does not absolve his readers of the need for moral reflection by offering any sort of hard and fast rules for their moral judgement. Rather, he uses strategies to elicit readers'active engagement with the act of judging. This book, drawing on the insights of recent narrative theories, especially narratology and reader-response criticism, examines Plutarch's narrative techniques in the Parallel Lives of drawing his readers into the process of moral evaluation and exposing them to the complexities entailed in it. Subjects discussed include Plutarch's prefatory projection of himself and his readers and the interaction between the two; Plutarch's presentation of the mental and emotional workings of historical agents, which serves to re-enact the participants'experience at the time and thus arouse empathy in the readers; Plutarch's closural strategies and their profound effects on the readers'moral inquiry; Plutarch's principles of historical criticism in On the malice of Herodotus in relation to his narrative strategies in the Lives. Through illustrating Plutarch's narrative technique, this book elucidates Plutarch's praise-and-blame rhetoric in the Lives as well as his sensibility to the challenges inherent in recounting, reading about, and evaluating the lives of the great men of history.

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Plutarchs Parallel Lives (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes)

Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S.

Saur, K. G., Verlag. ein Imprint der Walter de Gruyter GmbH

düsseldorf university press. in Walter de Gruyter GmbH

de Gruyter, Walter, GmbH

Trends in classic. Supplementary volumes, Berlin, 2018

Trends in Classics, vol. 57, Berlin ; Boston, © 2018

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 2018

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 57

Trends in classics, volume 57, Berlin, 2018

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This book examines Plutarch s narrative techniques in the Parallel Lives of drawing his readers into the process of moral evaluation and exposing them to the complexities involved in making moral judgements. It thus allows a point of entry into Plutarchs praise-and-blame rhetoric in the Lives and elucidates the exact working of his readers` cooperative activity in reading about and forming the right judgement on the lives of the great men of history.
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Literary Criticism
Ancient & Classical
Preface 8
Contents 10
1. Introduction: Plutarch’s Lives, Moralism, and Narrative Technique 12
2. Life-Writing in Triangles: Plutarch, Readers, and the Men of History 37
3. Emotion, Perception, and Cognition: The Individual and Society 77
4. A Life without End? 114
5. “It Remains to Consider the Lives in Parallel” (Ag./Cleom.-Gracchi 1.1) 139
6. Conclusion: On the Malice of Plutarch? 170
Texts, translations, and abbreviations 182
Bibliography 183
Index Locorum 207
Index Nominum et Rerum 227

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.02.2018

2025-10-27