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The Theory and Practice of Ostracism in Plutarch’s Lives
- Author(s):
- Jeffrey Beneker (see profile)
- Date:
- 2004
- Group(s):
- Ancient Greece & Rome
- Subject(s):
- History, Ancient--Historiography, Greece, Greece, History, Ancient, Classical literature, Greek literature, Historiography
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- biography, Plutarch, Ancient Greek historiography, Ancient Greek history, Classical Greek literature, Greek historiography
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M63J2B
- Abstract:
- This paper examines Plutarch's accounts of ostracism and explores how he thought it worked in theory and in practice. Accounts of ostracism are found in six of the Lives, all of fifth-century Athenians, and in one of the Moralia. These accounts often relate the same event, and so they allow us to see how Plutarch presents the same material from different perspectives.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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