Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Two Worlds - or One?
1: Friends or Patrons?
2: Plutarch's Lives and their Roman Readers
3: Revisiting Plutarch's Lives of the Caesars
4: Plutarch: Diplomat for Delphi?
5: Plutarch and Apollo of Delphi
6: Drinking, Table Talk, and Plutarch's Contemporaries
7: Leading the Party, Leading the City: the Symposiarch as Politikos
Part II: Writing for Romans
8: Before Pen Touched Paper: Plutarch's preparations for the Parallel Lives
9: Plutarch's Latin Reading: Cicero's Lucullus and Horace's Epistle 1.6
10: Plutarchan Prosopography: the Cursus honorum
11: Plutarch and Trajanic Ideology
12: The Justice of Trajan in Pliny Epistles 10 and Plutarch
13: Plutarch's Alexandrias
14: The Philosopher's Ambition: Plutarch, Arrian, and Marcus Aurelius
Part III: Statesmen as Models and Warnings
15: Plutarch's Lives: the Statesman as Moral Actor
16: The Rhetoric of Virtue in Plutarch's Lives
17: Mirroring Virtue in Plutarch's Lives
18: Paidagogia pros to theion: Plutarch's Numa
19: Paradoxical Paradigms: Plutarch's Lysander and Sulla
20: Competition and its Costs: *Q*i*l*o*n*i*k ίa in Plutarch's Society and Heroes
21: Parallels in Three Dimensions
Part IV: Post-Classical Reception
22: Cato the Younger in the English Enlightenment: Addison's Rewriting of Plutarch
23: Alexander Hamilton's Notes on Plutarch in his Paybook
24: Should we Imitate Plutarch's Heroes?
Bibliography
Index of Plutarchan passages
Index of names and topics

About the Author

Philip A. Stadter is Eugene H. Falk Professor in the Humanities Emeritus in the Classics Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Reviews

This is a reliable and sure-footed study, a valuable summation of half a century's devoted work.
*Christopher P. Jones, Sehepunkte*

informative and lucid
*Katarzyna Jazdzewska, Eos*

Plutarch and His Roman Readers is an outstanding interdisciplinary work at the crossroads of classics, political philosophy and literary studies.
*Ramón Bárcena, SHARP News*