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    • Book Chapter  Open Access

      5280. Themistius VI 71d–72a, 72d–73a 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (The Egypt Exploration Society, 2017)
      An edition with commentary of a papyrus of Themistius VI 71D-72A, 72D-73A
    • Review  

      Ancient Biography and Fictionalization 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (University of Alberta, 2017)
      A review of K. De Temmerman and K. Demoen, edd., Writing Biography in Greece and Rome: Narrative Technique and Fictionalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xiii + 354.
    • Book Chapter  Open Access

      Dreams and moral reflection in Plutarch’s lives 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Ινστιτούτο του Βιβλίου-Καρδαμίτσα, 2020)
      This paper shows that dreams and dreaming in Plutarch’s Lives are designed to work in tandem with other creative narrative devices in order to provoke the readers to engage in an active inquiry into the character and ...
    • Review  

      Ethical Education in Plutarch 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
      A review of (S.) Xenophontos Ethical Education in Plutarch. Moralising Agents and Contexts. (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 349.) Pp. x + 266. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2016.
    • 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  

      Group minds in ancient narrative: Herodian’s history of the Roman Empire as a case study 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Brill, 2023)
      The present article adopts a cognitive approach to examine the representation of group minds in ancient narrative and show the specific purposes to which they are put. Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire, a work that ...
    • Article  Open Access

      Herodian and Cassius Dio: a study of Herodian's compositional devices 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (2020)
      Herodian applies to Dio’s text displacement, omission, and modification of context in order to bring out themes and ideas that are essential to his own understanding of the post-Marcus world.
    • Article  Open Access

      Herodian’s Septimius Severus: literary portrait and historiography 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (The Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2022)
      In this article I offer a comprehensive examination of Herodian’s narrative of the emperor Septimius Severus, with a focus on his literary programme and historical methodology. First, I corroborate the view of recent ...
    • Article  Open Access

      Kaiserliche Erscheinungsbilder in Herodians Geschichte des Kaisertums nach Marc Aurel: Die Kaiser Commodus und Caracalla 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Winter Universitätsverlag, 2022)
      Im Rahmen dieses Aufsatzes wird untersucht, wie und in welchem Maß Herodian die äußere Erscheinung der Kaiser nutzt, um dadurch Charakterisierung und historische Interpretation zu lenken. Die Untersuchung bezieht dabei ...
    • Article  Open Access

      Laughter in Plutarch’s lives 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2019)
      This article examines the literary use and significance of laughter in Plutarch’s biographies. It focuses on a number of examples from Plutarch’s Lives where the protagonists, or other secondary characters, or even groups ...
    • 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 ...
    • Article  Open Access

      P. Oxy. LXXI 4808: bios, character, and literary criticism 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Rudolf Habelt Verlag GMBH, 2015)
      This paper discusses the literary genre of the unknown prose text published in volume LXXI of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri by A. G. Beresford, P. J. Parsons, and M. P. Pobjoy.
    • Article  Open Access

      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 on Cato the younger and the annexation of Cyprus 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Impr. Oleffe, 2022)
      This article offers a literary analysis of Plutarch’s narrative of Cato’s annexation of Cyprus in his Life of Cato the Younger. Through a detailed study of the parallel sources for this incident, it offers insights into ...
    • 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 ...
    • Review  

      Plutarch's versatility 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
      A review of (J.) Opsomer, (G.) Roskam, (F.B.) Titchener (edd.) A Versatile Gentleman. Consistency in Plutarch's Writing. Pp. vi + 304. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2016.
    • Book  

      Plutarch’s Parallel Lives: Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Walter de Gruyter, 2018)
      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 ...
    • Article  Open Access

      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 ...
    • Article  Open Access

      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 ...
    • Book  

      Reconfiguring the imperial past: narrative patterns and historical interpretation in Herodian's History of the empire 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (Brill, 2022)
      In the process of recording the history of the Roman Empire, from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the accession of Gordian III, Herodian makes his characters respond to the same situations in similar or different ways. ...