Add to ORKGA short number of quotations like, for example, Plato, R. 397a, 599d, or Aristotle Rhetoric (1403a) allow us to argue there were negative opinions against some tragic actors since the classic era of Athens. Therefore, our paper tries, on the one hand, to explore this kind of attitudes regarding tragic theatricality, taking on account the sources of Plutarch’s works, and, on the other, we will try to reconstruct the lives of these famous actors in order to understand which kind of actions aroused these hard judgments
The Phaedo has long been recognized as dramatic in nature (see, e.g., Jowett 1892, 193). Indeed, the...
As opposed to his philosophic predecessor Plato, who feared the effect poetry could have on moral ed...
This dissertation challenges two fundamental assumptions in current scholarship on Plutarch's Parall...
The present thesis focuses on the role of tragedy and on the multiple versions of theatricality in s...
This thesis explores Plutarch’s use of metaphors and similes of the theatre in order to represent, ...
The aim of this article is to compare Plutarch’s and Seneca’s use of the texts and themes of fifth c...
The dramatists of ancient Greece fixed the character and features of tragedy, and the Greek philosop...
From Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Poetics onwards, tragedy has loomed large in the genealogy of ...
Plutarch quotes Attic comedy as evidence, but he also uses both invective and stereotypes from comed...
This paper seeks to prove that there are no grounds in the Poetics to ascribe to Aristotle the views...
In the Parallel Lives Plutarch does not absolve his readers of the need for moral reflection by off...
This research explores the elements of tragedy in selected Shakespearean dramas. The Greek philosoph...
Alexander‘ s character and his activities occupy a special position in the works of Plutarch. Alexan...
In this paper, I offer a new interpretation of Aristophanes’ speech in Plato’s Symposium. Though ...
As a convinced Platonist, Plutarch mistrusts the didactic value of poetry, including theater; but, n...
The Phaedo has long been recognized as dramatic in nature (see, e.g., Jowett 1892, 193). Indeed, the...
As opposed to his philosophic predecessor Plato, who feared the effect poetry could have on moral ed...
This dissertation challenges two fundamental assumptions in current scholarship on Plutarch's Parall...
The present thesis focuses on the role of tragedy and on the multiple versions of theatricality in s...
This thesis explores Plutarch’s use of metaphors and similes of the theatre in order to represent, ...
The aim of this article is to compare Plutarch’s and Seneca’s use of the texts and themes of fifth c...
The dramatists of ancient Greece fixed the character and features of tragedy, and the Greek philosop...
From Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Poetics onwards, tragedy has loomed large in the genealogy of ...
Plutarch quotes Attic comedy as evidence, but he also uses both invective and stereotypes from comed...
This paper seeks to prove that there are no grounds in the Poetics to ascribe to Aristotle the views...
In the Parallel Lives Plutarch does not absolve his readers of the need for moral reflection by off...
This research explores the elements of tragedy in selected Shakespearean dramas. The Greek philosoph...
Alexander‘ s character and his activities occupy a special position in the works of Plutarch. Alexan...
In this paper, I offer a new interpretation of Aristophanes’ speech in Plato’s Symposium. Though ...
As a convinced Platonist, Plutarch mistrusts the didactic value of poetry, including theater; but, n...
The Phaedo has long been recognized as dramatic in nature (see, e.g., Jowett 1892, 193). Indeed, the...
As opposed to his philosophic predecessor Plato, who feared the effect poetry could have on moral ed...
This dissertation challenges two fundamental assumptions in current scholarship on Plutarch's Parall...