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Parallel Lives

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Plutarch’s >Parallel Lives< – Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement
Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement
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.                                                                                                                                                 

Plutarch’s Parallel Lives 1st Table of contents:

 1 Introduction: Plutarch’s Lives, Moralism, and Narrative Technique
1.1 ‘A Game for Two’
1.2 Plutarch’s Narrative Technique: Theory and Method
1.3 “Wait to the End of the ‘Life’ to Judge…” (Sol. 27–28)
1.3.1 Differing minds
1.3.2 The limits of learning
1.3.3 The limits of teaching
2 Life-Writing in Triangles: Plutarch, Readers, and the Men of History
2.1 ‘You’, ‘I’, and ‘We’
2.1.1 “But we shall not compare their speeches …” (Dem. 3.1)
2.1.2 “For it is not histories that I am writing, but Lives …” (Alex. 1.2)
2.1.3 “May I manage to make the mythical appear like history …” (Thes. 1.5)
2.1.4 “His favour extends even down to us …” (Cim. 2.2)
2.1.5 “As if we entertain each man as a guest through the historia …” (Aem. 1.2)
2.1.6 A shared inquiry
2.2 ‘Me’, ‘Us’, and ‘Them’
2.2.1 Rhetoric vs. praxis: Demosthenes and Cicero
2.2.2 Truth, philanthropy, and unity: Cimon and Lucullus
2.2.3 Practitioners of virtue: Pericles and Fabius
2.3 Internal and External Minds Intertwined
2.3.1 All at one …
2.3.2 Blurred minds
3 Emotion, Perception, and Cognition: The Individual and Society
3.1 Talking to Oneself
3.1.1 Gill on ‘the self in dialogue’
3.1.2 Dion’s and Cicero’s dilemmas
3.1.3 Reflecting in silence …
3.1.4 Caesar at the Rubicon (Caes. 32)
3.2 Individual and Community
3.2.1 Caesar and Rome
3.2.1.1 “They drove me to this pitch of necessity …” (Caes. 46.1)
3.2.1.2 The Lupercalia: Caesar’s public breakdown (Caes. 61)
3.2.1.3 Caesar’s assassination (Caes. 66)
3.2.2 “For the Athenians sent Nicias out to the war against his will …” (Nic.-Crass. 3.8)
3.2.3 “These moved Lucullus even further away from political life …” (Luc. 43.1)
3.2.4 Moral turnaround
4 A Life without End?
4.1 Perplexing Anecdotal Endings
4.2 The Man and the ‘Afterlife’ of his City
4.2.1 Looking beyond the myth
4.2.2 How far will all survive?
4.3 Closural Allusiveness
4.3.1 ‘Philosophical deaths’
4.3.2 “Crassus’ generalship ended just like a tragedy …” (Crass. 33.7)
4.4 Insight Distorted
4.4.1 Demetrius–Antony
4.4.2 Pyrrhus–Marius
5 “It Remains to Consider the Lives in Parallel” (Ag./Cleom.-Gracchi 1.1)
5.1 ‘Me’, ‘Us’, and ‘Them’ (Again)
5.2 “So, All in All, the Verdict Is Difficult” (Cim.-Luc. 3.6)
5.3 “Or Is This the First Point That Tells the Other Way?” (Dion-Brut. 3.6)
5.4 Terminal Irregularity?
6 Conclusion: On the Malice of Plutarch?
6.1 ‘Malice’ in the Lives
6.2 The Beetle in the Rose
Texts, translations, and abbreviations
Bibliography
Index Locorum
Index Nominum et Rerum

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