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Contents Contents 8 Acknowledgements 10 Plutarch, Theater and Politics 12 0.1 Plutarch of Chaeronea 14 0.2 The Theatrical in the Parallel Lives 21 0.3 Demetrius–Antony 26 0.4 The Political Plutarch 36 0.5 Plutarchan Exceptionalism? 38 0.6 Readers, Theaters, and Cultures 41 0.7 The Scope of This Book 45 1 Demosthenes: Between Oratory and Acting 46 1.1 Voice, Delivery, and Morality 47 1.2 The Triumph of Oratory over Theater 59 2 Phocion: Democracy in the Theater 82 2.1 The Theater as Locus for the Statesman’s Virtue 83 2.2 Choregoi and Civic Values 88 2.3 Condemned in the Theater 96 3 Sparta: Performance in Foreign and Domestic Politics 111 3.1 Greek Theater and Spartan Victory in Agesilaus, Cleomenes, and Lysander 113 3.2 Poetry and Poets at Sparta 133 3.3 Lysander’s Revolutionary Theater 142 4 Roman Warfare: Violence and Conflict as Spectacle 152 4.1 Roman Spectacle of War 153 4.2 Triumph in Aemilius Paullus 165 5 Roman Politics: Sponsors and Audiences 182 5.1 Roman and Greek Statesmen in the Theater 184 5.2 Seating in the Theater 187 5.3 Theatrical Sponsorship and Political Character 199 6 Cicero: Roman Orator on Display 218 6.1 Roscius the Comedian and Aesopus the Tragedian 219 6

Author

Raphaëla Dubreuil

Language

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