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- W4233103654 abstract "Plutarch’s Lives of Nicias and the Gracchi share textual recollection of the Athenian politician Cleon as described in the pseudo-Aristotelian Ath.Pol. Whereas Plutarch’s Nicias has the understandable direct reference to Cleon’s antics (Cleon is the political rival of Nicias), the Ti. Gracchus exploits the Ath.Pol. in explication of the Gracchi’s approach to public oratory. Plutarch seemingly inserts a Greek anecdote without any hesitation into a biography of an unrelated Roman, living some three hundred years later, for little purpose other than a repetitive display of erudition. This chapter discusses Plutarch’s resurrection of Cleon as a figure of demagogic vocal excess, especially since extant Latin literature prior to Plutarch notably fails to fully exploit the potential of a possible rabble-rousing pairing of C. Gracchus and Cleon. Cleon’s casting as one given to κράζειν is less a matter of shouting than of screeching (as attested by Plutarch’s own commentary on C. Gracchus, supported by the description of Cleon’s contemporary, Aristophanes). Second, Plutarch’s usage of Cleon indicates an afterlife for the Athenian politician, remembered not only for his fierce oratory and factious political approach, but also his questionable pitch. Despite Quintilian’s statement that to a late 1st century CE audience Cleon’s style would have been hardly controversial, Plutarch sees pitch as a key measure of the orator. As an outcome, Plutarch’s erudition becomes far from being banal—instead it enables us to reappraise the role of κράζειν in public, political oratory on both sides of a linguistically divided empire." @default.
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- W4233103654 title "Shrieking Volumes: Plutarch’s Use of the Ath.Pol. as Intertextual Bridge between Athens and Rome" @default.
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