Ch. 6. A Literary Passage: Polybius and Plutarch’s Narrator

Authors

  • Eran Almagor

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/histos122

Keywords:

Polybius, Plutarch, Narrative World, Unreliable Narrator, Aratus of Sicyon, Cleomenes III, Antigonus III Doson

Abstract

This article deals with the presence of Polybius in the narrative world of Plutarch’s works. It assumes that the explicit references made by Plutarch’s narrator to Polybius have artistic, literary, and historiographic aims (to shed light on the protagonist of Life or on the narrative). Four passages in Plutarch’s works are examined which correspond to passages within the extant complete five books of Polybius: Aratus 38; Cleomenes 25 and 27; and De fortuna Romanorum 12. Published in Alexander Meeus, ed., Narrative in Hellenistic Historiography (HISTOS Supplement 8), p. 171-209.

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Published

2018-01-01

How to Cite

Almagor, Eran. 2018. “Ch. 6. A Literary Passage: Polybius and Plutarch’s Narrator”. Histos, January, 171-209. https://doi.org/10.29173/histos122.

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2018: HISTOS Supplement 8: Narrative in Hellenistic Historiography, edited by Alexander Meeus (2018)

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