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An orator turns to an actor for advice, citizens expect assemblies to unfold like dramas, and a theater-goer cries at a play thinking of his fallen enemy: no Life escapes the mention of theatrical imagery in Plutarch’s paralleled biographies. And yet this is the first book not only to examine Plutarch’s consistent and coherent use of this imagery but also to argue that it is systematically employed to describe, explore, and evaluate politics in action. The theater becomes Plutarch’s invitation for us to question and uncover key moments of Athenian, Spartan, and Roman history as it unfolds.
Price: $150.00
Pages: 302
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Plutarch Studies
Publication Date:
09 November 2023
ISBN: 9789004681736
Format: Hardcover
"Dubreuil succeeds in showing that the theatrical is important to Plutarch’s political thinking in the Lives and that it deserves treatment independent of the tragic, which she does acknowledge where appropriate. [...] Overall, Dubreuil’s treatment is rich, thorough, closely reasoned, and contributes significantly to our understanding of Plutarch. Scholars interested in the role that theater and theories of theater, as well as spectacle and oratory, play in Plutarch’s intellectual and conceptual world as well as in his literary art will find Dubreuil’s work valuable." Peter Hunt, BMCR2024.09.10.
Raphaëla Dubreuil, Ph.D. (2017), University of Edinburgh, publishes on different aspects of Imperial Greek literature, including forthcoming articles on Dio Chrysostom. She is a recipient of an IRC fellowship (Trinity College Dublin) and a DAAD (the Freie Universität zu Berlin).