Title :

“Exemplary Gallic Wives in the Erotikos and Mulierum Virtutes of Plutarch: Stereotypes and Comparisons”

Author(s) :

Delattre, Charles [Auteur]
Histoire, Archéologie et Littérature des Mondes Anciens - UMR 8164 [HALMA]

Scientific editor(s) :

Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
Alison Keith
Florence Klein (éds.)

Book title :

Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity

Publisher :

De Gruyter

Publication place :

Berlin & New York

Publication date :

2021-04-06

English keyword(s) :

Gaul Greek Stereotype Comparison Plutarch Wife

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Etudes classiques
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Littératures
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Religions

English abstract : [en]

The Plutarchean treatise Mulierum Virtutes can be defined as a consolatory text, an encomium and a catalogue of exempla. It elaborates on an assumption, introduced with particular vigour in the first lines of the text: ...
Show more >The Plutarchean treatise Mulierum Virtutes can be defined as a consolatory text, an encomium and a catalogue of exempla. It elaborates on an assumption, introduced with particular vigour in the first lines of the text: there is only one kind of honorable conduct, and it can be found in married women as well as in men. Plutarch also develops this particular topic in his Erotikos, a text that has many links with the Mulierum Virtutes and even shares with it one example, that of Camma the Galatian. Both texts rely on a similar composition technique: they develop a comparison (sunkrisis) which differentiates, associates, and parallels Greek and foreign peoples, and also measures men against women. Gender identity and ethnicity are combined in Plutarch’s reflection, but the outcome needs to be precisely assessed, as there is no question of universalism or gender equality in the discussion.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Histoire Archéologie Littératures des Mondes Anciens (HALMA) - UMR 8164

Source :

Harvested from HAL