An Opaque Mirror for Trajan: A Literary Analysis and Interpretation of Plutarch's Regum Et Imperatorum Apophthegmata by Van Der Wiel, Laurens
An Opaque Mirror for Trajan: A Literary Analysis and Interpretation of Plutarch's Regum Et Imperatorum Apophthegmata by Van Der Wiel, Laurens

An Opaque Mirror for Trajan: A Literary Analysis and Interpretation of Plutarch's Regum Et Imperatorum Apophthegmata

Plutarch's Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata (Sayings of Kings and Commanders) holds a peculiar position in his oeuvre....
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An Opaque Mirror for Trajan: A Literary Analysis and Interpretation of Plutarch's Regum Et Imperatorum Apophthegmata by Van Der Wiel, Laurens

An Opaque Mirror for Trajan: A Literary Analysis and Interpretation of Plutarch's Regum Et Imperatorum Apophthegmata

$377.50
An Opaque Mirror for Trajan: A Literary Analysis and Interpretation of Plutarch's Regum Et Imperatorum Apophthegmata by Van Der Wiel, Laurens

An Opaque Mirror for Trajan: A Literary Analysis and Interpretation of Plutarch's Regum Et Imperatorum Apophthegmata

$377.50
Author: Laurens Van Der Wiel
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Plutarch's Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata (Sayings of Kings and Commanders) holds a peculiar position in his oeuvre. This collection of almost 500 anecdotes of barbarian, Greek, and Roman rulers and generals is introduced by a dedicatory letter to Trajan as a summary of the author's well known and widely read Parallel Lives. The work is therefore Plutarch's only text that explicitly addresses a Roman emperor and is likely to shed light on his biographical technique. Yet the collection has been understudied, because its authenticity has been generally rejected since the nineteenth century. This book restores its reputation and provides a first full literary analysis of the letter and collection as a genuine work of Plutarch, wherein he attempts to educate his ruler by means of great role models of the past. Plutarch's thinking about the function of role models (exempla) is not only relevant for Plutarchan research, but also for our knowledge of exemplarity, a key feature both in Greek and Latin literature in the early imperial period in general. Therefore An Opaque Mirror for Trajan is also of interest for literary and historical scholars who study the broader context of ancient literature of the first centuries CE.

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Author: Laurens Van Der Wiel
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 03/15/2024
Pages: 500
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.99lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9789462703902

About the Author

Laurens van der Wiel is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Warsaw. He is part of the project "Thinking of Thinking. Conceptual Metaphors of Cognition in the Plutarchan Corpus".


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