Plutarch's Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia

322 Pages·2022·2.269 MB·English

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

Plutarch’sUnexpectedSilences
Brill’s Plutarch Studies
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LautaroRoigLanzillotta(UniversityofGroningen)
DelfimF.Leão(UniversityofCoimbra)
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Plutarch’s Unexpected
Silences
SuppressionandSelectionintheLivesand Moralia
Editedby
JeffreyBeneker
CraigCooper
NoreenHumble
FrancesB.Titchener
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Contents
NotesonContributors ix
Introduction 1
JeffreyBeneker,CraigCooper,NoreenHumbleandFrancesB.
Titchener
part 1
SilenceandtheNarrator
1 WhenHermesEnters:TowardsaTypologyoftheSilencesofPlutarch’s
NarratorandTheirUsesinCharacterization 11
EranAlmagor
2 Plutarch’sNarratorialSilencesintheDion 36
MichaelNerdahl
3 TheUnspokenBridgebetweenPhilosophyandPolitics:Plutarch’sDe
genioSocratis 50
BernardBoulet
part 2
SilenceasaLiteraryTechnique
4 TheQuietLife:SilenceinPlutarch’sDemetrius 65
ThomasC.Rose
5 Fine-TuningPortraitsintheLives:OmissionsthatClarifytheLessonsin
Leadership 81
SusanG.Jacobs
6 Plutarch’sSilenceabouttheRelationshipbetweenMilitarySuccessand
PoliticalVirtueinSullaandCaesar 102
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7 TheRepulsaeofAemiliusPaulusinPlutarch’sAemilius 117
ColinBailey
8 ALifeinPieces:Plutarch,Crassus12.1–16.8 138
JamesT.Chlup
9 WhatabouttheGold-DiggingAnts?TheSilencesandIronyofPlutarch’s
DeHerodotimalignitate 151
CharlesW.Oughton
part 3
SilencingthePastandPresent
10 Plutarch’sAvoidanceofPhilipv 173
BradL.Cook
11 SilenceoftheLions:ExploringPlutarch’sOmissionsonChaeronea 188
ChandraGiroux
12 WhatYourBestFriendWon’tTellYou:ThucydideanandPlutarchan
SilencesonSicily 210
ChristopherPelling
13 SilencingSparta 223
NoreenHumble
14 ThePeek-a-BooPresenceofAeschinesinPlutarch’sDemosthenes 245
CraigCooper
15 PlutarchontheChristians:WhySoSilent?Ignorance,Indifference,or
Indignity? 263
FrederickE.Brenk
16 Plutarch’s(Unexpected?)SilenceonJewishMonotheism 282
JosephGeiger
GeneralIndex 295
IndexLocorum 298
Notes on Contributors
EranAlmagor
is the author of studies on Plutarch and other Greek imperial-era writers
(Strabo,Josephus).HisinterestsincludethehistoryoftheAchaemenidEmpire
and its image in Greek literature (especially in Herodotus and Ctesias),
Plutarch’s works (mainly the Lives), and the modern reception of antiquity
(particularlyinpopularculture).Heistheauthorof PlutarchandthePersica
(Edinburgh University Press, 2018), and is co-editor of AncientEthnography:
NewApproaches(Bloomsbury,2013)andTheReceptionof AncientVirtuesand
VicesinModernPopularCulture(Brill,2017).
ColinBailey
is Associate Professor of Classics at MacEwan University. He has published
papersonDioChrysostom,PlutarchofChaeronea,andRomanRepublicanhis-
tory.Heisco-editor(withA.KemezisandB.Poletti)ofTheIntellectualClimate
ofCassiusDio:GreekandRomanPasts(Brill,2022).Hisresearchinterestsfocus
onearlyimperialGreekliteratureandinteractionsbetweenGreeceandRome.
JeffreyBeneker
isProfessorof ClassicsattheUniversityof WisconsininMadison.Hispubli-
cationsincludeThePassionateStatesman:ErosandPoliticsinPlutarch’sLives
(Oxford,2012),TheRhetoricalExercisesofNikephorosBasilakes(2016)andThe
Byzantine Sindbad (2021) for the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, and
Plutarch:HowtoBeaLeader(Princeton,2019).Heisco-editorofTheDiscourse
ofMarriageintheGreco-RomanWorld(Wisconsin,2020).
BernardBoulet
isaretiredprofessorofphilosophyfromSainte-FoyCollegeandfromtheGreat
Books program at Laval University, Quebec City. His main research interests
arethecomparisonbetweenancientandmodernpoliticalphilosophy,andthe
relationshipsbetweenphilosophy,politicsandreligion.HeiseditorforCollec-
tionRésurgencesandco-authorofbooksonPlato,Machiavelli,andDescartes.
Heisco-founderoftheCercleduSavoirwherehenowteaches.
FrederickE.Brenk
isoneofthefoundersoftheInternationalPlutarchSociety.From1982to2011
hetaughtatthePontificalBiblicalInstitute,Rome,wherehebecameprofessor
ordinarius.HehaspublishedInMistApparelled:ReligiousThemesinPlutarch’s