Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.33.6, pp. 4347-4469
 
Plutarch's Life 'Markos Antonios': A Literary and Cultural Study
by Frederick E. Brenk, S. J., Rome

Contents

I. The Neronian Background to the Life

4348

1. The Nerogonia of the 'Antonios'

4348

2. Plutarch and the Rex turned Rana

4356

3. Nero and Antonius Omestes

4363

4. Vice Inherited: The Rotten Tree

4367

II. Antonius and Demetrios

4375

1. Biographical Platonism and the Chance of Living Again

4375

2. Parallels in Vice

4380

3. Parallels in Assimilations

4382

4. Treading the Same Ground

4385

5. Fighting the Same Battles

4387

6. From Battle to Banquet to Boudoir

4391

7. Inimitable Livers and Inseparable in Death

4393

III. Narrative

4402

1. Time

4402

2. The Unified Plot

4409

3. The Episodic Plot

4413

4. Point of View

4420

IV. Some Aspects of Style

4426

1. The Flight of Themistokles

4426

2. Escaping the Ships of Libo

4438

3. The Battle of Actium

4441

4. The Pageantry: Antonius' Debauchery, His Arrival at Ephesos, Kleopatra's Arrival at Tarsos

4449

V. Bibliography

4458
Indices 4895

I. Authors and Texts Cited

4895

II. Historical Persons

4901

III. Subjects

4903

IV. Technical Terms

4910

V. Modern Authors

4912
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