Plutarch's Unexpected Silences

Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51424-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 663 g

Reihe: Brill's Plutarch Studies

The act of recording anything is at the same time an act of silencing. Choices are made at every step about what to keep and what to discard. Examining what Plutarch has left out enriches our understanding of what he has chosen to say, and both deepens our knowledge of the literary practices of this influential writer and opens new and fruitful lines of enquiry about Plutarch, his work, and his world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Beneker, Jeffrey

Cooper, Craig

Humble, Noreen

Titchener, Frances

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Jeffrey Beneker, Craig Cooper, Noreen Humble and Frances B. Titchener

Part 1 Silence and the Narrator

1 When Hermes Enters: Towards a Typology of the Silences of Plutarch’s Narrator and Their Uses in Characterization

Eran Almagor

2 Plutarch’s Narratorial Silences in the Dion

Michael Nerdahl

3 The Unspoken Bridge between Philosophy and Politics: Plutarch’s De genio Socratis

Bernard Boulet

Part 2 Silence as a Literary Technique

4 The Quiet Life: Silence in Plutarch’s Demetrius

Thomas Rose

5 Fine-Tuning Portraits in the Lives: Omissions That Clarify the Lessons in Leadership

Susan G. Jacobs

6 Plutarch’s Silence about the Relationship between Military Success and Political Virtue in Sulla and Caesar

Rex Stem

7 The Repulsae of Aemilius Paulus in Plutarch’s Aemilius

Colin Bailey

8 A Life in Pieces: Plutarch, Crassus 12.1–16.8

James T. Chlup

9 What about the Gold-Digging Ants? The Silences and Irony of Plutarch’s De Herodoti malignitate

Charles W. Oughton

Part 3 Silencing the Past and Present

10 Plutarch’s Avoidance of Philip V

Brad Cook

11 Silence of the Lions: Exploring Plutarch’s Omissions on Chaeronea

Chandra Giroux

12 What Your Best Friend Won’t Tell You: Thucydidean and Plutarchan Silences on Sicily

Christopher Pelling

13 Silencing Sparta

Noreen Humble

14 The Peek-a-Boo Presence of Aeschines in Plutarch’s Demosthenes

Craig Cooper

15 Plutarch on the Christians: Why So Silent? Ignorance, Indifference, or Indignity?

Frederick E. Brenk

16 Plutarch’s (Unexpected?) Silence on Jewish Monotheism

Joseph Geiger

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey Beneker, Ph.D. (2002) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He has published on ancient biography and Byzantine literature, including The Passionate Statesman (Oxford, 2012).

Craig Cooper, Ph.D. (1992) University of British Columbia, is a Professor of Classics at the University of Lethbridge. He has published on ancient Greek biography, rhetoric, and law, including Epigraphy and the Greek Historian (University of Toronto Press, 2008).

Noreen Humble, Ph.D. (1997) McMaster University, is Professor of Classics at the University of Calgary and Associate Director of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. She is the editor of Plutarch’s Lives: Parallelism and Purpose (Classical Press of Wales, 2010).

Frances B. Titchener, Ph.D. (1988) University of Texas, Austin, is Professor of Classics and History at Utah State University. She has been a visiting scholar in Leuven and Rethymno, and co-edited numerous books, including the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Plutarch.

Contributors are: Eran Almagor, Colin Bailey, Frederick E. Brenk, Bernard Boulet, James T. Chlup, Brad L. Cook, Craig Cooper, Joseph Geiger, Chandra Giroux, Noreen Humble, Susan G. Jacobs, Michael Nerdahl, Charles W. Oughton, Christopher Pelling, Thomas C. Rose, Rex Stem.