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Like a Captive Bird: Gender and Virtue in Plutarch
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ISBN: 1643150405 1643150391 9781643150406 9781643150390 Year: 2023 Publisher: Lever Press

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Like a Captive Bird examines the use of psychagogy, a set of therapeutic principles for achieving virtue, in Plutarch's work. Warren argues that Plutarch's work makes use of moral-educational literature to inculcate a gendered sense of self in the reader, and that this self is fundamentally concerned with the sex of the body, its reproductive role, and the conjugal relationship. Psychagogy is therefore a process of self-formation which aims to regulate and distribute power in gendered interactions on the basis of virtue. On this view, virtue is not just a disposition of the soul, it is also a set of rules and regulations for how one should act and interact with others, and this ties it inextricably to gender. Plutarch furthers this view in his theoretical-philosophical work, where he moves beyond the gender binary to a psychic scale of gender expression which figures normative gender as virtuous and non-normative gender as vicious. He then examines the implications of these views in the biographies. Warren therefore holds that Plutarch's views on women and gender across all genres are ideologically coherent, even if written at different stages of his life.


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Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus
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ISBN: 9781474411080 1474411088 9781474411073 9781474411097 147441107X 1474433189 1474411096 1474427138 1474422047 1474445071 9781474427135 9781474445078 9781474422048 Year: 2016 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient Greek writers of history and the techniques they used to bring them across.

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