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Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences
Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia
Series: - Brill's Plutarch Studies, Volume: 10
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.
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.
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.
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Jeffrey Beneker, Craig Cooper, Noreen Humble and Frances B. Titchener
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
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
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
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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