1st Edition
Generic Enrichment in Plutarch’s Lives
Generic Enrichment in Plutarch's Lives: An Introduction
Timothy E. Duff
1. Hesiod’s Didactic Poetry in Plutarch’s Lives
Zoe Stamatopoulou
2. Early Lyric Poetry in Plutarch’s Life of Solon
Lawrence Kim
3. Tragicomedy? Generic Enrichment in Plutarch, Demetrius 38 and Antony 70
Judith Mossman
4. Tragic Colouring in Plutarch
Christopher Pelling
5. Enriching Lives: History and Tragedy in Plutarch’s Nicias
Lucy E. Fletcher
6. Plutarch’s Alexander and the Definition of Ancient Fiction
Richard Stoneman
7. Scientific Discourse, Scientific Genres and Plutarchan Biography
Katerina Oikonomopoulou
8. Generic Enrichment in Plutarch’s Mountain-Battle Landscapes
Jason König
9. Rhetorical Enrichment in Plutarch’s Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero
Michael J. Edwards
10. Generic Engagement in Plutarch’s Use of Non-Literary Texts
Craig Cooper
11. The Unbearable Lightness of Philosophia
Alexei V. Zadorojnyi
12. Enrichment Galore
Christopher Pelling
Biography
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 €1.49 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.
