Journal article
History and Plutarch 'De Garrulitate'
- Abstract:
- This article examines an anecdote about the loquacity of an imaginary friend of Socrates which Plutarch tells to illustrate the vice of talkativeness at De garrulitate 21. It argues that the anecdote derives more meaning when read against Thucydides Book 8, as Plutarch invites the reader to do. Read thus, the talkative man’s ramblings take on a complexity and menace which they would not otherwise possess. Thus, the article demonstrates the validity of recent models in thinking about historiographical intertextuality in Plutarch.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.29173/histos705
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- Publisher:
- University of Alberta
- Journal:
- Histos More from this journal
- Volume:
- 18
- Pages:
- 140-65
- Publication date:
- 2025-04-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2024-10-18
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2046-5963
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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2259079
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pubs:2259079
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2025-07-31
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- Luke Pitcher
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- 2025
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