Theater and Politics in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives

Raphaëla Dubreuil, Ph.D. (2017), University of Edinburgh, publishes on different aspects of Imperial Greek literature, including forthcoming articles on Dio Chrysostom. She is a recipient of an IRC fellowship (Trinity College Dublin) and a DAAD (the Freie Universität zu Berlin).

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Introduction: Plutarch, Theater and Politics

 0.1 Plutarch of Chaeronea

 0.2 The Theatrical in the Parallel Lives

 0.3 Demetrius–Antony

 0.4 The Political Plutarch

 0.5 Plutarchan Exceptionalism?

 0.6 Readers, Theaters, and Cultures

 0.7 The Scope of This Book



1 Demosthenes: Between Oratory and Acting

 1.1 Voice, Delivery, and Morality

 1.2 The Triumph of Oratory over Theater



2 Phocion: Democracy in the Theater

 2.1 The Theater as Locus for the Statesman’s Virtue

 2.2 Choregoi and Civic Values

 2.3 Condemned in the Theater



3 Sparta: Performance in Foreign and Domestic Politics

 3.1 Greek Theater and Spartan Victory in Agesilaus, Cleomenes, and Lysander

 3.2 Poetry and Poets at Sparta

 3.3 Lysander’s Revolutionary Theater



4 Roman Warfare: Violence and Conflict as Spectacle

 4.1 Roman Spectacle of War

 4.2 Triumph in Aemilius Paullus



5 Roman Politics: Sponsors and Audiences

 5.1 Roman and Greek Statesmen in the Theater

 5.2 Seating in the Theater

 5.3 Theatrical Sponsorship and Political Character



6 Cicero: Roman Orator on Display

 6.1 Roscius the Comedian and Aesopus the Tragedian

 6.2 Cicero Contra Antony: Competing Models of Emotional Politics

 6.3 Cicero’s Demise



Conclusion

 7.1 Athens, Sparta, and Rome

 7.2 The Theater as Destruction and as Reparation

 7.3 Plutarch, Dio, and the Alexandrians

Bibliography

Index Rerum et Nominum

Index Locorum