Browsing by Subject "Plutarch"

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    • Book Chapter  Open Access

      Generic and intertextual enrichment: Plutarch’s Alexander 30 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Brill, 2020)
      This chapter examines Plutarch’s engagement with other texts and genres in a single scene from the Life of Alexander, that of Darius’ discussion with the eunuch Tireus (Alex. 30), and the effects which such generic and ...
    • Article  Open Access

      Orator-politician vs. philosopher: Plutarch’s Demosthenes 1–3 and Plato’s Theaetetus 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)
      The present article argues for both a lexical and a larger conceptual connection between the prologue to Plutarch's Demosthenes–Cicero book (Dem. 1–3) and the so-called digression on the lives of the orator-politicians and ...
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      Plutarch and the “Malicious” historian 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (University of Illinois Press, 2020)
      This article shows that Plutarch’s principles of historical criticism in On the Malice of Herodotus do not always obtain in the Lives, and that Plutarch’s narrative techniques in his biographies prove to be vulnerable to ...
    • Article  Open Access

      Plutarch's rhetoric of periautologia: Demosthenes 1–3 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018)
      This paper approaches Plutarch's prologue to the Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero (Dem. 1–3) from a novel perspective, seeking to examine Plutarch's prefatory self-display in light of his instructions in the essay On ...
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      The proems of Plutarch’s lives and historiography 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Dept. of Classics, University of Durham, 2017)
      In this article I focus on Plutarch’s prologues to the Alexander–Caesar, Nicias–Crassus, and Theseus–Romulus books, all of which discuss Plutarch’s biographical method in relation to history. I suggest that in these ...
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      Reading history ethically: Plutarch on Alexander’s murder of Cleitus (Alex. 50-52.2) 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (International Plutarch Society, 2019)
      This paper offers a close reading of Plutarch’s treatment of Alexander’s murder of Cleitus in the Life of Alexander (50-52.2), analyzing the specific narrative techniques that Plutarch employs to draw his readers to ...