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Document Details : Title: Plutarch's Concept of History Subtitle: Philosophie from Examples Author(s): HERSHBELL, J.P. Journal: Ancient Society Volume: 28 Date: 1997 Pages: 225-243 DOI: 10.2143/AS.28.0.630077 Abstract : Plutarch’s interest in historiography is apparent from his polemic On the Malice of Herodotus which, together with Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ On Thucydides and Lucian of Samosata’s How to Write History, is one of the three full-length treatises on the writing of history to survive from the Graeco-Roman world. According to the so-called Lamprias Catalogue, Plutarch also wrote &Pi&omega&sigmaf &kappa&rho&iota&nu&omicron&upsilon&mu&epsilon&nu &tauὴ&nu ἀ&lambdaή&theta&eta ἱ&sigma&tau&omicron&rhoί&alpha&nu (no. 124 in the Catalogue) which may be connected with another lost essay of his, &Pi&omega&sigmaf &kappa&rho&iota&nu&omicron&upsilon&mu&epsilon&nu &tauὴ&nu ἀ&lambdaή&theta&epsilon&iota&alpha&nu (no. 225 of the Catalogue). Perhaps as Konrat Ziegler has suggested, these works stood in a relationship of the particular to the general («im Verhältnis des Speziellen zum Allgemeinen»). But even though Plutarch had a great interest in historiography, he is usually not considered a historian, and he did not regard himself as such. |
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