Sources of Plutarch's Demetrius

Sweet, Waldo E.

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“…Zważywszy na dużą liczbę takich przykładów, trudno przyjąć, że wynika to ze zwykłych błędów i niedopatrzeń Plutarcha. Wyjaśnienia wskazanych problemów moglibyśmy zatem szukać w wykorzystanych przez niego źródłach, którymi jak się uważa byli w dużej części autorzy nieprzychylni Demetriuszowi (Sweet 1951). Nie wykluczone, że to od nich Plutarch mógł zaczerpnąć prezentowane przez siebie informacje.…”

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Odwołania do Aleksandra Wielkiego i ich rola w Żywocie Demetriusza Plutarcha z Cheronei

Zieliński

2020

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Odwołania do Aleksandra Wielkiego i ich rola w Żywocie Demetriusza Plutarcha z Cheronei

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2020

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“…Readers of Attic forensic speeches know that the defendants often appeared in court in a particular costume in order to provoke the pity of the jurors 78 . Hellenistic statesmen 73 For the interest of Douris in costumes see Sweet 1951: 179 with note 32: FrGrHist 76 F 10, did not hesitate at all to adopt similar costumes for the same purpose. Prusias II, king of Bithynia, dressed himself as a libertus when he visited Rome in 167/6.…”

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Theatricality Beyond the Theater. Staging Public Life in the Hellenistic World

Chaniotis¹

1997

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Authority between Mask and Sign: The Status of the Royal Body in Ancient Greece (Fourth to Second Centuries BCE)

Cournarie

2016

Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales

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What kind of body was the body of a Hellenistic king? To consider kings in antiquity is to necessarily reach back beyond Ernst Kantorowicz's schema and explore the body before the concept of the “king's two bodies.” An analysis of Xenophon's Cyropaedia sheds light on this configuration, in which the problem was not so much the (unachievable) conformation of a royal super-body as the obscure point at which the natural encountered the ceremonial, the latter absolutely essential to the former in the context of a sprawling empire, but nevertheless threatening to engulf it in the luxury with which the sovereign surrounded himself. Neither transparent nor opaque, at once a sign and a mask, this model was further honed by Alexander the Great. While his persona was bound up with the same alternative, the criticisms that he faced obliged Alexander to make a tactical distinction between his person and ceremonial luxury. This separation in no way implied a duality but rather depended on shifting boundaries, sometimes insisting on his naturally royal body, sometimes on the luxury reconfigured by the sovereign's extreme mastery. The Hellenistic kings inherited these questions, and alternated between a symbolization of their natural being and a naturalization of the symbolic in a constant interplay that resisted stabilization. Only the rise of Rome would bring an end to this vision of the royal body in a process of perpetual construction, as though the incarnation of royalty itself was inconceivable.

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Sources of Plutarch's Demetrius

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Odwołania do Aleksandra Wielkiego i ich rola w Żywocie Demetriusza Plutarcha z Cheronei

Odwołania do Aleksandra Wielkiego i ich rola w Żywocie Demetriusza Plutarcha z Cheronei

Theatricality Beyond the Theater. Staging Public Life in the Hellenistic World

Authority between Mask and Sign: The Status of the Royal Body in Ancient Greece (Fourth to Second Centuries BCE)

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