This book examines passages in Plutarch’s works that foil expectations and whose silence invites closer examination. The contributors question omissions of authors, works, people, and places, and they examine Plutarch’s reticence to comment where he usually would Includes bibliographical references and index Jeffrey Beneker, Craig Cooper, Noreen Humble and Frances B. Titchener: Introduction / Eran Almagor: 1 When Hermes Enters: Towards a Typology of the Silences of Plutarch’s Narrator and Their Uses in Characterization / Michael Nerdahl: 2 Plutarch’s Narratorial Silences in the Dion / Bernard Boulet: 3 The Unspoken Bridge between Philosophy and Politics: Plutarch’s De genio Socratis / Thomas Rose: 4 The Quiet Life: Silence in Plutarch’s Demetrius / Susan G. Jacobs: 5 Fine-Tuning Portraits in the Lives : Omissions That Clarify the Lessons in Leadership / Rex Stem: 6 Plutarch’s Silence about the Relationship between Military Success and Political Virtue in Sulla and Caesar / Colin Bailey: 7 The Repulsae of Aemilius Paulus in Plutarch’s Aemilius / James T. Chlup: 8 A Life in Pieces: Plutarch, Crassus 12.1–16.8 / Charles W. Oughton: 9 What about the Gold-Digging Ants? The Silences and Irony of Plutarch’s De Herodoti malignitate / Brad Cook: 10 Plutarch’s Avoidance of Philip V / Chandra Giroux: 11 Silence of the Lions: Exploring Plutarch’s Omissions on Chaeronea / Christopher Pelling: 12 What Your Best Friend Won’t Tell You: Thucydidean and Plutarchan Silences on Sicily / Noreen Humble: 13 Silencing Sparta / Craig Cooper: 14 The Peek-a-Boo Presence of Aeschines in Plutarch’s Demosthenes / Frederick E. Brenk: 15 Plutarch on the Christians: Why So Silent? Ignorance, Indifference, or Indignity? / Joseph Geiger: 16 Plutarch’s (Unexpected?) Silence on Jewish Monotheism / |
