Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article examines an anecdote about the loquacity of an imaginary friend of Socrates which Plutarch tells to illustrate the vice of talkativeness at De garrulitate 21. It argues that the anecdote derives more meaning when read against Thucydides Book 8, as Plutarch invites the reader to do. Read thus, the talkative man’s ramblings take on a complexity and menace which they would not otherwise possess. Thus, the article demonstrates the validity of recent models in thinking about historiographical intertextuality in Plutarch.
Source: Histos
DOI: 10.29173/histos705
Author: Luke Pitcher
Institution: University of Oxford
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409778697