Plutarch's >Parallel Lives< - Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement
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Plutarch's >Parallel Lives< - Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement

Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou

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Plutarch's >Parallel Lives< - Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement

Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou

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In the Parallel Lives Plutarch does not absolve his readers of the need for moral reflection by offering any sort of hard and fast rules for their moral judgement. Rather, he uses strategies to elicit readers' active engagement with the act of judging. This book, drawing on the insights of recent narrative theories, especially narratology and reader-response criticism, examines Plutarch's narrative techniques in the Parallel Lives of drawing his readers into the process of moral evaluation and exposing them to the complexities entailed in it. Subjects discussed include Plutarch's prefatory projection of himself and his readers and the interaction between the two; Plutarch's presentation of the mental and emotional workings of historical agents, which serves to re-enact the participants' experience at the time and thus arouse empathy in the readers; Plutarch's closural strategies and their profound effects on the readers' moral inquiry; Plutarch's principles of historical criticism in On the malice of Herodotus in relation to his narrative strategies in the Lives. Through illustrating Plutarch's narrative technique, this book elucidates Plutarch's praise-and-blame rhetoric in the Lives as well as his sensibility to the challenges inherent in recounting, reading about, and evaluating the lives of the great men of history.

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2018
ISBN
9783110574715
Edition
1
Topic
Littérature
Subtopic
Critique littéraire ancienne et classique

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Contents
  3. 1. Introduction: Plutarch’s Lives, Moralism, and Narrative Technique
  4. 2. Life-Writing in Triangles: Plutarch, Readers, and the Men of History
  5. 3. Emotion, Perception, and Cognition: The Individual and Society
  6. 4. A Life without End?
  7. 5. “It Remains to Consider the Lives in Parallel” (Ag./Cleom.-Gracchi 1.1)
  8. 6. Conclusion: On the Malice of Plutarch?
  9. Texts, translations, and abbreviations
  10. Bibliography
  11. Index Locorum
  12. Index Nominum et Rerum
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APA 6 Citation

Chrysanthou, C. (2018). Plutarch’s >Parallel Lives< - Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement ([edition unavailable]). De Gruyter. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/606677/plutarchs-parallel-lives-narrative-technique-and-moral-judgement-pdf (Original work published 2018)

Chicago Citation

Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos. (2018) 2018. Plutarch’s >Parallel Lives< - Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement. [Edition unavailable]. De Gruyter. https://www.perlego.com/book/606677/plutarchs-parallel-lives-narrative-technique-and-moral-judgement-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Chrysanthou, C. (2018) Plutarch’s >Parallel Lives< - Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement. [edition unavailable]. De Gruyter. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/606677/plutarchs-parallel-lives-narrative-technique-and-moral-judgement-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Chrysanthou, Chrysanthos. Plutarch’s >Parallel Lives< - Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement. [edition unavailable]. De Gruyter, 2018. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.