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Some Persons in Plutarch's Moralia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

G. W. Bowersock
Affiliation:
Harvard University

Extract

Plutarch of Chaeronea was a voluminous writer whose experience of the Graeco-Roman world of his own day was quite as comprehensive as his knowledge of earlier ages. The ancient historian is often daunted by the sheer bulk of Plutarch's work and prefers customarily to concentrate his attention upon the Lives, which, if not history, at least contain much historical matter.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1965

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1 Cf. Vita Alex. Mag. I: . I am glad to acknowledge here my gratitude to Dr. Joan Bigwood and Mr. C. P. Jones for their helpful participation in my Plutarch seminar at Harvard in the autumn of 1963.

2 De Iside 364 E.

3 The first inscription was published in Klio xvii (1921), 154,Google Scholar corrected in the same journal, xviii (1922), 306,Google Scholar whence S.E.G. i 159.Google Scholar The second inscription was published in B.C.H. lxx (1946), 254,Google Scholar but there are intimations of it in Bourguet, E., De Rebus Delphicis Imperatoriae Aetatis (1905), p. 18.Google Scholar

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6 See n. 3 above.

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2 Praec. Coniug. 145 E.

3 P.I.R.2, F 369 and R.E.A. xlvii (1945), 8081.Google Scholar Cf. West, , C.P. xxiii (1928), 263 ff., on Soclarus' epimelesia.Google Scholar

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2 Mittelhaus, K., De Plutarchi Praeceptis gerendae rei publicae (Diss. Berlin, 1911), p. 29Google Scholar (between A.D. 115 and 120), approved by Ziegler, , R.-E. xxi. 714.Google Scholar Sister Renoirte, however, proposed an earlier dating in her generally unfortunate book on the Praecepta, Les ‘Conseils Politiques’ de Plutarque (1951), p. 112.Google Scholar

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