Plutarch’s Simonides A Versatile Gentleman?

This paper begins by exploring the probable reasons for Plutarch’s interest in Simonides, next examines first his several citations of Simonides used to establish historical or myth-historical facts and then the very small number that apparently caught his eye for their poetic quality¹. It notes tha...

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Published inA Versatile Gentleman p. 71
Main Author Ewen Bowie
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Leuven University Press 28.06.2016
Subjects
Anecdotes
Anthologies
Anthropology
Applied philosophy
Arts
Ascriptions
Asian history
Asian studies
Behavioral sciences
Communications
Elegies
Epigrams
Ethnography
Ethnology
Greed
Information resources
Information science
Language
Linguistics
Literary genres
Literature
Medes
Narrative poetry
Narratives
Personality
Personality psychology
Personality traits
Philosophy
Plastic arts
Poetic forms
Poetry
Psychology
Sayings
Sculpture
Sculpture in the round
Social philosophy
Social sciences
Social theories
Statues
Sumer
Vernacular language
Visual arts
Western Asian history
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Summary:This paper begins by exploring the probable reasons for Plutarch’s interest in Simonides, next examines first his several citations of Simonides used to establish historical or myth-historical facts and then the very small number that apparently caught his eye for their poetic quality¹. It notes that when he cites a melic passage and some epigrams without the ascription to Simonides offered by a later source or by modern scholars he may well be right. Finally instances of multiple citation are reviewed and their relevance to the hypothesis that Plutarch compiled some sort ofhypomnemais noted. It would be surprising
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