Homer as a Model for Plutarchan Advice on Good Governance

José-Antonio Fernández-Delgado

Chapter 5 Homer as a Model for Plutarchan Advice on Good Governance

In: The Dynamics of Intertextuality in Plutarch

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Pages:: 86–97

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004427860_007

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Abstract

From the known quotations with ornamental, erudite, logical or authoritative functions that the Homeric text provides for the stylistic configuration of Plutarch’s works dedicated to political advise (Maxime cum principibus, Ad princ. iner., An seni, Praec ger. reip.), a very high proportion play also a role in the generic configuration of these works. They offer, to greater and lesser extents, an action model of good governance, promoted by Plutarch’s various exhortations. Additionally, these quotations provide the model function shown by certain heroes characteristic of the epos or by certain similes, and they allow readers to observe the inclination for certain Homeric expressions, some of which manage to adopt a programmatic function, that appear across Plutarch’s texts. This is the kind of intertextuality that my chapter aims to approach, in the frame of the reception of Homer by Plutarch as the school model par excellence.

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The Dynamics of Intertextuality in Plutarch

Series: Brill's Plutarch Studies, Volume: 5

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004427860

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 06 May 2020

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  - Greek & Latin Literature
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