- I miei scritti su Plutarco
- Angelo Casanova
La Vita di Teseo e la tradizione letteraria
- Angelo Casanova
- © 2025 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0824-6.17
The Life of Theseus offers numerous literary quotations, but only some are meant as rhetorical decoration: many function as source and testimony for Theseus’ adventures. Plutarch is careful in making a distinction between poets’ tales and historians’ witnesses: he is always prudent with the accounts of the poets. Nevertheless, in particular in the first part of the Life, his narration is based on myth, as presented in classical tragedies (especially Euripides’) and even in Callimachus’ Ecale.
- Keywords:
- Life of Theseus,
- poetry vs history,
- tragedians,
- Theseus in Euripides,
- Callimachus,
University of Florence, Italy
Chapter Information
Chapter Title
La Vita di Teseo e la tradizione letteraria
Authors
Angelo Casanova
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0824-6.17
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Book Title
I miei scritti su Plutarco
Book Subtitle
Raccolti, riveduti e corretti con bibliografia unificata
Authors
Angelo Casanova
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
366
Publication Year
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0824-6
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0823-9
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979-12-215-0824-6
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0825-3
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919