This volume addresses the important literary phenomenon of 'generic enrichment' in Plutarch's Parallel Lives, examining the ways in which features of other genres are deployed and incorporated in Plutarch's biographies and the effects of this on the texts themselves and readers' responses to them.
This volume addresses the important literary phenomenon of 'generic enrichment' in Plutarch's Parallel Lives, examining the ways in which features of other genres are deployed and incorporated in Plutarch's biographies and the effects of this on the texts themselves and readers' responses to them.