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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.

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Author:   Jeffrey Beneker ,  Craig Cooper ,  Noreen Humble ,  Frances Titchener
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   10
Weight:   0.663kg
ISBN:  

9789004514249

ISBN 10:   9004514244
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   17 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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