Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Plutarch and Biography Christophe Pellingr; 2. Romanness and Greekness in Plutarch Manuel Tröster; 3. Plutarch as moral educator Timothy Duff; 4. In the spirit of Plato Jan Opsomer; 5. Plutarch as a Polemicist John Dillon and Alexei Zadorojnyi; 6. Religion and myth in Plutarch Robert Lamberton; 7. Plutarch at the symposium Katerina Oikonomopoulou; 8. Language, style, and Rhetoric Donald Russell; 9. Plutarch and classical Greece Philip Stadter; 10. Great men: leadership in Plutarch's lives Mark Beck; 11. Thinking 'Private Life': Plutarch on gender, sexuality, family Françoise Frazier; 12. Wealth and decadence in Plutarch's lives Christopher Pelling; 13. Plutarch and the Barbarian 'Other' Eran Almagor; 14. Plutarch and Animals Judith Mossman and Alexei Zadorojnyi; 15. Plutarch in Byzantium Noreen Humble; 16. Plutarch in the Italian Renaissance Marianne Pade; 17. Plutarch and the Spanish Renaissance Aurelio Pérez Jiménez; 18. Plutarch and Shakespeare: Reviving the dead Julia Griffin; 19. Plutarch in France: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries Katherine MacDonald; Bibliography.

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Engaging introduction by leading scholars to the many aspects of Plutarch's numerous and varied works and their subsequent reception.

About the Author

Frances B. Titchener is Distinguished Professor of History and Classics at Utah State University. Involved with the International Plutarch Society since 1987, she is co-editor of Ploutarchos, the journal of the IPS. She is also a co-editor of Fame and Infamy (2015) and of Plutarch's Cities (2022). Alexei Zadorojnyi is Senior Lecturer in Greek Language and Culture at the University of Liverpool. He has published numerous articles and chapters on Plutarch as well as other Greek and Roman authors of the imperial period.