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Beiträge A–Z

...................................................................................... ii Lay summary................................................................................. iii Acknowledgements.......................................................................... iv Abbreviations................................................................................. v INTRODUCTION......................................................................... 1 CHAPTER 1: Kingship and Spectatorship in Egypt and Sparta................ 13 I. Egypt................................................................................. 16 1. Cleopatra........................................................................ 16 2. The Alexandrians.............................................................. 24 II. Sparta............................................................................... 40 1. Modes of Viewing............................................................. 40 2. Rejection of Theatre........................................................... 51 CHAPTER 2: Monarchs as Actors in the Hellenistic Period..................... 66 I. The Diadochoi: the Advent of Histrionic Politics............................. 69 1. The Diadochoi as Actors...................................................... 73 2. Demetrius on the Stage....................................................... 90 II. Perseus and his Court: Performing a Tragedy for Rome..................... 100 CHAPTER 3: Acting and Delivery in Demosthenes’ Relationship to Oratory................................................................. 115 I. The Orator and the Actor......................................................... 116 II. The Triumph of Oratory over Theatre.......................................... 130 CHAPTER 4: Reading Oratory as Performance in Cicero’s Political Conduct................................................................... 154 I. Humour and Suffering as Performance......................................... 157 II. Cicero contra Antony: Competing Models of Emotional Politics......... 169 III. Cicero’s Demise.................................................................. 174 CHAPTER 5: Statesmen and Assemblies in the Theatre of Athens............. 195 I. The Theatre as Locus for the Statesman’s Virtue.............................. 196 II. Choregoi and Civic Values...................................................... 201 III. Condemned in the Theatre...................................................... 211 CONCLUSION............................................................................ 226 BIBLIOGRAPHY........................................................................ 230

Theatrica and political action in Plutarch’s Parallel lives

From the mid-sixth to the mid-fourth century BCE a nexus of connections to Thrace defined the careers of several of Athens' most prominent figures, including Pisistratus, Miltiades, Alcibiades and Iphicrates This book explores the importance of Thrace to these individuals and its resulting significance in the political, cultural and social history of Athens Thrace was vitally important for Athens thanks to its natural resources and access to strategic waterways, which were essential to a maritime empire, and connections to the area conferred wealth and military influence on certain Athenians and offered them a refuge if they faced political persecution at home However, Thrace's importance to prominent individuals transcended politics: its culture was also an important draw Thrace was a world free of Athenian political, social and cultural constraints – one that bore a striking resemblance to the world of Homeric epic

Athens, Thrace, and the Shaping of Athenian Leadership

Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades

Military leadership in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives

It is now almost a hundred years since the publication of Soltau's article on Nepos and Plutarch2—the only study, as far as I am aware, that deals exclusively with the two biographers. It will come as no surprise that Soltau's paper was devoted solely to Plutarchean Quellenforschung, written, as it was, in the heyday of that genre. (As a matter of fact it was well above par for the course). The present study aims at putting the relationship between the two writers in a broader context. While there is no need to discuss again3 those Plutarchean biographies where Nepos was used as a source it may well be worth the while to try and reconstruct the circumstances in which Plutarch came to rely on Nepos as well as the extent of that reliance; a better understanding of Plutarch's dependence on Nepos will help us to assess the extent of his innovation and achievement.

Joseph Geiger

Papers

Nepos and Plutarch: From Latin to Greek Political Biography