Exiling Achilles: reflections on the banished statesman in Plutarch’s "lives"

• Michael Nerdahl ^[1]
  1. [1] Bowdoin College

     Bowdoin College

     Town of Brunswick, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Classical journal, ISSN 0009-8353, Vol. 107, Nº 3, 2012, págs. 331-353
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In Plutarch’s Lives of Camillus, Aristides and Coriolanus, Plutarch depicts their “exilic moments” through links to the image of Achilles. Only these three exiles share Achillean imagery at the very instant they depart their home cities and this image, in concert with the key Plutarchan themes of justice and the relationship between masses and statesman, suggests an additional level of moral evaluation that supplements the biographer’s standard syncritical approach.