The Dynamics of Intertextuality in Plutarch: (5 Brill's Plutarch Studies)

The Dynamics of Intertextuality in Plutarch explores the numerous aspects and functions of intertextual links both within the Plutarchan corpus itself (intratextuality) and in relation with other authors, works, genres or discourses of Ancient Greek literature (interdiscursivity, intergenericity) as well as non-textual sources (intermateriality). Thirty-six chapters by leading specialists set Plutarch within the framework of modern theories on intertextuality and its various practical applications in Plutarch’s Moralia and Parallel Lives. Specific intertextual devices such as quotations, references, allusions, pastiches and other types of intertextual play are highlighted and examined in view of their significance for Plutarch’s literary strategies, argumentative goals, educational program, and self-presentation.

Table of Contents:
Preface List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations of Plutarch’s Works Introduction: Plutarch and the Academic Reader  Maria Vamvouri Part 1 Defining Intertextuality in Plutarch 1 Intertextuality in Plutarch: What’s the Point?  Christopher Pelling 2 Hearing Voices: φωνή and Intertextual Orality in Plutarch  Alexei V. Zadorojnyi 3 Forms and Functions of Intratextuality in Plutarch’s Corpus  Gennaro D’Ippolito Part 2 Intertextuality at Work 4 Voices from the Past: Quotations and Intertextuality in Plutarch’s The Oracles at Delphi  Frederick E. Brenk 5 Homer as a Model for Plutarchan Advice on Good Governance  José-Antonio Fernández-Delgado 6 Pericles and Athens: An Intertextual Reading of Plutarch and Thucydides  Mark Beck 7 Plutarch’s and Xenophon’s Sparta: Intra- and Intertextual Relations in the Spartan Lives  Olivier Gengler 8 The Mechanics of Intertextuality in Plutarch  Timothy E. Duff 9 Shrieking Volumes: Plutarch’s Use of the Ath.Pol. as Intertextual Bridge between Athens and Rome  Andrew Worley 10 How to Do Things with Hellenistic Historiography: Plutarch’s Intertextual Use(s) of Polybius  Eran Almagor 11 “Let Us Make the Most of What They Offer Us”: Different Layers of Intertextuality in Plutarch’s Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum  Geert Roskam 12 The Encounter between Roman Virtue and Platonism in Plutarch’s Cato the Elder  Michael Nerdahl 13 Plutarch’s Theseus-Romulus and the Murder of Remus  Brad Buszard Part 3 Intratextuality and the Plutarchan Corpus 14 Heroes Imitating Heroes: Ethical and Pragmatic Intratextuality in the Parallel Lives  Susan Jacobs 15 Ejemplos de responsio gramatical en el Teseo-Rómulo de Plutarco  Aurelio Pérez Jiménez 16 Reading Plutarch through Plutarch (?): De sera numinis vindicta and the Commentary on Hesiod’s Erga  Stefano Amendola 17 Demetrius of Phalerum in Plutarch: A Multimodal Expression of Intertextuality and Intratextuality  Delfim F. Leão 18 “As Each Came to Mind”: Intertextualizing Plutarch’s Mentality of Intricacy in the Table Talk and Questions  Michiel Meeusen 19 Un ‘galateo’ intestestuale del simposio: le raccomandazioni di Plutarco personaggio dei Moralia  Paola Volpe Cacciatore Part 4 Through the Lens of Interdiscursivity 20 Sympotic Intertextuality in Plutarch’s Maxime cum principibus philosopho esse disserendum  Craig Cooper 21 Aesopic Wisdom in Plutarch  Philip A. Stadter 22 Plutarch’s Proverbial Intertexts in the Lives  Alessio Ruta 23 Who Is the Best Prophet? The ‘Manifold’ Character of a Quotation in Plutarch  Elsa Giovanna Simonetti 24 Aspetti e funzioni dell’intertestualità nei De tuenda sanitate praecepta di Plutarco  Fabio Tanga 25 Medical Allusions and Intertext of Physis in Plutarch’s Comp. Cim. et Luc. 2.7  Eleni Plati Part 5 Intergenericity: Plutarch’s Works at the Crossroads 26 Generic and Intertextual Enrichment: Plutarch’s Alexander 30  Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou 27 Intertextuality Across Paired Lives: Plutarch’s Nicias-Crassus  Lucy E. Fletcher 28 Plutarch’s Less Tragic Heroes: Drama and Epic in the Pelopidas  Anna Lefteratou 29 From Inter-textuality to Inter-mediality: Plutarch’s Lyric Quotations from Greek Tragedy  Argyri G. Karanasiou 30 Love in Many Dimensions: Hesiod and Empedocles in Plutarch’s Amatorius  Katarzyna Jazdzewska 31 Las Vitae de Plutarco y el epigrama  Francisca Pordomingo 32 Defining Rhetoric While Playing with Pre-texts: Some Aspects of Intertextuality in Plutarch’s Praecepta gerendae reipublicae 801C–D  Theofanis Tsiampokalos Part 6 Beyond Text: Plutarch and Intermateriality 33 Plutarch’s Sparta: Intertextual and Experiential  Philip Davies 34 ὕλη θεολογίας: Religious Lore as Inter‘text’ in Plutarch’s Moralia  Rainer Hirsch-Luipold 35 The Power of Bones: An Intertextual and Intermaterial Reading of the Retrieval of Theseus’ Bones in Plutarch’s Life of Cimon  Chandra Giroux 36 Plutarch’s Intertextual References to Tattoos and Brands  Christina Harker Bibliography Index locorum General index

About the Author :
Thomas Schmidt is Professor of Classics at the University of Fribourg. His publications include Plutarque et les barbares (1999) and Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its Times (2011). He is currently preparing the Budé edition of the fragments of Plutarch’s works. Maria Vamvouri teaches Ancient Greek at the Gymnasium Auguste Piccard in Lausanne. She is the author of monographs on Greek Hymns (Kernos 2004) and on Plutarch’s banquet (Belles Lettres 2012). Her new book is a commented edition of Yannis Ritsos’ translation of Sophocles’ Antigone (Kedros 2020). Rainer Hirsch-Luipold is Professor of New Testament and History of Ancient Religions, Faculty of Theology, University of Bern, and Extraordinary Professor, University of Stellenbosch (SA), Department of Ancient Studies. Publications include Plutarchs Denken in Bildern. Studien zur literarischen, philosophischen und religiösen Funktion des Bildhaften (Tübingen, 2002). Contributors are: Eran Almagor, Stefano Amendola, Mark Beck, Frederick E. Brenk, Brad Buszard, Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou, Craig Cooper, Philip Davies, Timothy E. Duff, José-Antonio Fernández-Delgado, Delfim F. Leão, Lucy E. Fletcher, Olivier Gengler, Chandra Giroux, Christina Harker, Rainer Hirsch-Luipold, Gennaro D’Ippolito, Susan Jacobs, Katarzyna Jazdzewska, Argyri G. Karanasiou, Anna Lefteratou, Michiel Meeusen, Michael Nerdahl, Christopher Pelling, Aurelio Pérez Jiménez, Eleni Plati, Francisca Pordomingo, Geert Roskam, Alessio Ruta, Elsa Giovanna Simonetti, Philip A. Stadter, Fabio Tanga, Theofanis Tsiampokalos, Maria Vamvouri, Paola Volpe Cacciatore, Andrew Worley, Alexei V. Zadorojnyi.

Review :
"In conclusione, il volume rappresenta un contributo significativo agli studi su Plutarco, in particolare per quello che riguarda gli aspetti letterari della sua vasta produzione. La metodologia adottata si rivela duttile e capace di illuminare aspetti poco frequentati del corpus plutarcheo, rifuggendo in generale dal rischio di una eccessiva schematicità. [...] Il risultato è una panoramica esaustiva, intelligente e aggiornata rispetto al tema dell’intertestualità in Plutarco, nonché uno strumento facilmente consultabile per chi volesse approfondire le singole sfaccettature del problema nel complesso del corpus plutarcheo." Francesco Padovani, BMCR 2021.02.37.