Browsing Τμήμα Κλασικών Σπουδών και Φιλοσοφίας / Department of Classics and Philosophy by Subject "Classical philology"

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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 ...
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      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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      Φήμη in Herodian’s roman history 

      Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos S. (De Gruyter, 2023)
      This article offers a usage study of the word φήμη throughout Herodian’s Roman History. It sets Herodian’s practice in a broader literary picture that includes other historians, but also epic and the novel, and then suggests ...