Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.33.6, pp. 4053-4127
 
A Survey of Work on Plutarch's Greek Lives, 1951-1988
by Anthony J. Podlecki and Sandra Duane, Vancouver, B. C., Canada

Contents

I. Introduction

4054

II. Bibliographic Studies

4054

III. Editions and/or Translations

4055

IV. Plurch the Biographer

4058

A. General works on Plutarch

4058

B. Plutarch's biographical aims and methods

4060

1. Sources

4060

2. Choice and arrangement of material

4063

3. Chronology

4064

C. Plutarch's analysis and presentation of character

4065

D. Proem and synkrisis

4067

E. Plutarch's philosophical, moral and religious attitudes as manifested in the Lives

4068

F. Plutarch and the theatre

4069

G. Miscellaneous topics

4070

1. Women

4070

2. Non-Greeks

4071

V. Textual Studies

4071

VI. Individual Lives

4073
Addendum 4127
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