The Life of Theseus: From Theater to History

Carlos Alcalde-Martín

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Chapter 1 The Life of Theseus: From Theater to History

于A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004404472_002

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In his Theseus, Plutarch attempts to confer historical verisimilitude on the facts that the legends attribute to the hero. Such legends are found in the works of poets, especially the tragic ones, and Plutarch, according to his religious and philosophical ideas, cannot accept them in their literal sense. That is why, at the beginning of the Life, he declares his intention to purge them by reason so that they take on the aspect of history and uses different resources for this purpose. He gives more credit to sources that rationalize myths and replace fantastic elements with usual ones and also seeks the confluence of legend and history in etiology: toponymy, rites, customs and political institutions of Athens whose foundation is attributed to the hero. Plutarch uses other more personal procedures to confirm the historicity of some episodes, such as his claim of having visited places and vestiges related to the events narrated. In this way Theseus is made into one more of the historical figures of the Parallel Lives.

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A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic

Essays in Honor of Aurelio Pérez Jiménez

丛编： Brill's Plutarch Studies, 卷： 2

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出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 27 Jun 2019

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