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An Opaque Mirror For Trajan

A Literary Analysis and Interpretation of Plutarch's 'Regum et Imperatorum Apophthegmata'

2024 || Hardcover || Laurens Van der Wiel || Leuven University Press

Plutarch’s Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata (Sayings of Kings and Commanders) holds a peculiar position in his oeuvre. This collection of almost 500 anecdotes of barbarian, Greek, and Roman rulers and generals is introduced by a dedicatory letter to Trajan as a summary of the author’s well known and widely read Parallel Lives. The work is therefore Plutarch’s only text that explicitly addresses a Roman emperor and is likely to shed light on his biographical technique. Yet the collecti...