Generic Enrichment in Plutarchs Lives

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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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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Generic Enrichment in Plutarch's Lives: An Introduction; *1. Hesiod's Didactic Poetry in Plutarch's Lives 2. Early Lyric Poetry in Plutarch's Life of Solon 3. Tragicomedy? Generic Enrichment in Plutarch, Demetrius 38 and Antony 70 4. Tragic Colouring in Plutarch 5. Enriching Lives: History and Tragedy in Plutarch's Nicias 6. Plutarch's Alexander and the Definition of Ancient Fiction 7. Scientific Discourse, Scientific Genres and Plutarchan Biography 8. Generic Enrichment in Plutarch's Mountain-Battle Landscapes 9. Rhetorical Enrichment in Plutarch's Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero 10. Generic Engagement in Plutarch's Use of Non-Literary Texts 11. The Unbearable Lightness of Philosophia* 12. Enrichment Galore