Generic Enrichment in Plutarch’s Lives (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies) - Hardcover

 
9780367135355: Generic Enrichment in Plutarch’s Lives (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies)

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This volume addresses the important literary phenomenon of 'generic enrichment' in Plutarch's Parallel Lives, examining the ways in which features of other genres are deployed and incorporated in Plutarch's biographies and the effects of this on the texts themselves and readers' responses to them.

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Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Cyprus. His last book, a literary commentary on 'Septimius Severus and Herodian' (2025) is part of the Zetemata series. In 2023, he was awarded funding of EUR1.49 million from the ERC for his project Group Minds in Ancient Narrative.

Timothy E. Duff is Professor of Greek at the University of Reading. He is author of Plutarch's Lives: Exploring Virtue and Vice as well as numerous papers on Plutarch. He is also editor and co-translator of Plutarch: The Age of Alexander.

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