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This chapter explores Plutarch’s Lives of Galba and Otho, as well as his Lives of Aratus and Artaxerxes. Those of Galba and Otho are closely knit together and, together with a lost Life of Vitellius, were probably part of one book, or at least a continuous series. By contrast, and like some other lost Lives, the Lives of Aratus and Artaxerxes are truly isolated. However, all four Lives are ‘single’ Lives in the sense that they are not written within the framework of parallelism (such as those in the Parallel Lives, on which see Chapter 13). It is tempting to regard them as a finger exercise for the great enterprise of the Parallel Lives. In that hypothesis, they would be somewhat different concerning biographical technique and/or theme and goal. Testing this hypothesis through an analysis of the ‘single’ Lives should eventually bring out their specific characteristics against the background of Plutarch’s biographical activity in the Parallel Lives.
Title: Plutarch
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This chapter explores Plutarch’s Lives of Galba and Otho, as well as his Lives of Aratus and Artaxerxes.
Those of Galba and Otho are closely knit together and, together with a lost Life of Vitellius, were probably part of one book, or at least a continuous series.
By contrast, and like some other lost Lives, the Lives of Aratus and Artaxerxes are truly isolated.
However, all four Lives are ‘single’ Lives in the sense that they are not written within the framework of parallelism (such as those in the Parallel Lives, on which see Chapter 13).
It is tempting to regard them as a finger exercise for the great enterprise of the Parallel Lives.
In that hypothesis, they would be somewhat different concerning biographical technique and/or theme and goal.
Testing this hypothesis through an analysis of the ‘single’ Lives should eventually bring out their specific characteristics against the background of Plutarch’s biographical activity in the Parallel Lives.
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