The Dynamics of Intertextuality in Plutarch

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42170-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 666 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1131 g

Reihe: Brill's Plutarch Studies

The Dynamics of Intertextuality in Plutarch explores the numerous aspects and functions of intertextual links both within the Plutarchan corpus itself (intratextuality) and in relation with other authors, works, genres or discourses of Ancient Greek literature (interdiscursivity, intergenericity) as well as non-textual sources (intermateriality). Thirty-six chapters by leading specialists set Plutarch within the framework of modern theories on intertextuality and its various practical applications in Plutarch’s Moralia and Parallel Lives. Specific intertextual devices such as quotations, references, allusions, pastiches and other types of intertextual play are highlighted and examined in view of their significance for Plutarch’s literary strategies, argumentative goals, educational program, and self-presentation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Schmidt, Thomas S.

Vamvouri, Maria

Hirsch-Luipold, Rainer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations of Plutarch’s Works

Introduction: Plutarch and the Academic Reader

Maria Vamvouri

Part 1 Defining Intertextuality in Plutarch

1 Intertextuality in Plutarch: What’s the Point?

Christopher Pelling

2 Hearing Voices: f??? and Intertextual Orality in Plutarch

Alexei V. Zadorojnyi

3 Forms and Functions of Intratextuality in Plutarch’s Corpus

Gennaro D’Ippolito

Part 2 Intertextuality at Work

4 Voices from the Past: Quotations and Intertextuality in Plutarch’s The Oracles at Delphi

Frederick E. Brenk

5 Homer as a Model for Plutarchan Advice on Good Governance

José-Antonio Fernández-Delgado

6 Pericles and Athens: An Intertextual Reading of Plutarch and Thucydides

Mark Beck

7 Plutarch’s and Xenophon’s Sparta: Intra- and Intertextual Relations in the Spartan Lives

Olivier Gengler

8 The Mechanics of Intertextuality in Plutarch

Timothy E. Duff

9 Shrieking Volumes: Plutarch’s Use of the Ath.Pol. as Intertextual Bridge between Athens and Rome

Andrew Worley

10 How to Do Things with Hellenistic Historiography: Plutarch’s Intertextual Use(s) of Polybius

Eran Almagor

11 “Let Us Make the Most of What They Offer Us”: Different Layers of Intertextuality in Plutarch’s Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum

Geert Roskam

12 The Encounter between Roman Virtue and Platonism in Plutarch’s Cato the Elder

Michael Nerdahl

13 Plutarch’s Theseus-Romulus and the Murder of Remus

Brad Buszard

Part 3 Intratextuality and the Plutarchan Corpus

14 Heroes Imitating Heroes: Ethical and Pragmatic Intratextuality in the Parallel Lives

Susan Jacobs

15 Ejemplos de responsio gramatical en el Teseo-Rómulo de Plutarco

Aurelio Pérez Jiménez

16 Reading Plutarch through Plutarch (?): De sera numinis vindicta and the Commentary on Hesiod’s Erga

Stefano Amendola

17 Demetrius of Phalerum in Plutarch: A Multimodal Expression of Intertextuality and Intratextuality

Delfim F. Leão

18 “As Each Came to Mind”: Intertextualizing Plutarch’s Mentality of Intricacy in the Table Talk and Questions

Michiel Meeusen

19 Un ‘galateo’ intestestuale del simposio: le raccomandazioni di Plutarco personaggio dei Moralia

Paola Volpe Cacciatore

Part 4 Through the Lens of Interdiscursivity

20 Sympotic Intertextuality in Plutarch’s Maxime cum principibus philosopho esse disserendum

Craig Cooper

21 Aesopic Wisdom in Plutarch

Philip A. Stadter

22 Plutarch’s Proverbial Intertexts in the Lives

Alessio Ruta

23 Who Is the Best Prophet? The ‘Manifold’ Character of a Quotation in Plutarch

Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

24 Aspetti e funzioni dell’intertestualità nei De tuenda sanitate praecepta di Plutarco

Fabio Tanga

25 Medical Allusions and Intertext of Physis in Plutarch’s Comp. Cim. et Luc. 2.7

Eleni Plati

Part 5 Intergenericity: Plutarch’s Works at the Crossroads

26 Generic and Intertextual Enrichment: Plutarch’s Alexander 30

Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou

27 Intertextuality Across Paired Lives: Plutarch’s Nicias-Crassus

Lucy E. Fletcher

28 Plutarch’s Less Tragic Heroes: Drama and Epic in the Pelopidas

Anna Lefteratou

29 From Inter-textuality to Inter-mediality: Plutarch’s Lyric Quotations from Greek Tragedy

Argyri G. Karanasiou

30 Love in Many Dimensions: Hesiod and Empedocles in Plutarch’s Amatorius

Katarzyna Jazdzewska

31 Las Vitae de Plutarco y el epigrama

Francisca Pordomingo

32 Defining Rhetoric While Playing with Pre-texts: Some Aspects of Intertextuality in Plutarch’s Praecepta gerendae reipublicae 801C–D

Theofanis Tsiampokalos

Part 6 Beyond Text: Plutarch and Intermateriality

33 Plutarch’s Sparta: Intertextual and Experiential

Philip Davies

34 ??? ?e?????a?: Religious Lore as Inter‘text’ in Plutarch’s Moralia

Rainer Hirsch-Luipold

35 The Power of Bones: An Intertextual and Intermaterial Reading of the Retrieval of Theseus’ Bones in Plutarch’s Life of Cimon

Chandra Giroux

36 Plutarch’s Intertextual References to Tattoos and Brands

Christina Harker

Bibliography

Index locorum

General index

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas Schmidt is Professor of Classics at the University of Fribourg. His publications include Plutarque et les barbares (1999) and Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its Times (2011). He is currently preparing the Budé edition of the fragments of Plutarch’s works.

Maria Vamvouri teaches Ancient Greek at the Gymnasium Auguste Piccard in Lausanne. She is the author of monographs on Greek Hymns (Kernos 2004) and on Plutarch’s banquet (Belles Lettres 2012). Her new book is a commented edition of Yannis Ritsos’ translation of Sophocles’ Antigone (Kedros 2020).

Rainer Hirsch-Luipold is Professor of New Testament and History of Ancient Religions, Faculty of Theology, University of Bern, and Extraordinary Professor, University of Stellenbosch (SA), Department of Ancient Studies. Publications include Plutarchs Denken in Bildern. Studien zur literarischen, philosophischen und religiösen Funktion des Bildhaften (Tübingen, 2002).

Contributors are: Eran Almagor, Stefano Amendola, Mark Beck, Frederick E. Brenk, Brad Buszard, Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou, Craig Cooper, Philip Davies, Timothy E. Duff, José-Antonio Fernández-Delgado, Delfim F. Leão, Lucy E. Fletcher, Olivier Gengler, Chandra Giroux, Christina Harker, Rainer Hirsch-Luipold, Gennaro D’Ippolito, Susan Jacobs, Katarzyna Jazdzewska, Argyri G. Karanasiou, Anna Lefteratou, Michiel Meeusen, Michael Nerdahl, Christopher Pelling, Aurelio Pérez Jiménez, Eleni Plati, Francisca Pordomingo, Geert Roskam, Alessio Ruta, Elsa Giovanna Simonetti, Philip A. Stadter, Fabio Tanga, Theofanis Tsiampokalos, Maria Vamvouri, Paola Volpe Cacciatore, Andrew Worley, Alexei V. Zadorojnyi.