Plutarch’s Compositional Technique: The Anecdote Collections and the <i>Parallel Lives</i>

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  • Philip A. Stadter

Abstract

Comparison of two of Plutarch’s Apothegmata works with some of the extant Lives shows that he first compiled commonplace books on several themes, which he then reorganized and exploited in writing the Lives.

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2014-08-30

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