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Plutarco e Menandro

  • Angelo Casanova

Plutarch loves and highly esteems Menander. He quotes him about 50 times (in many cases preserving fragments otherwise unknown). This paper offers a rapid survey, then choosing to dwell on the most important and meaningful ones. Subsequently, the attention turns to the Comparatio Aristophanis et Menandri, that is known to us only through a Compendium: but some Plutarch’s quotations clearly show his admiration and the reasons for which he definitely preferred Menander to Aristophanes.

  • Keywords:
  • Menander in Plutarch,
  • quotations,
  • fragments on love,
  • Menander vs Aristophanes career,
  • University of Padua,
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Angelo Casanova

University of Florence, Italy

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  • Publication Year: 2025
  • Pages: 39-50
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Chapter Information

Chapter Title

Plutarco e Menandro

Authors

Angelo Casanova

Language

Italian

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0824-6.06

Peer Reviewed

Publication Year

2025

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© 2025 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

Bibliographic Information

Book Title

I miei scritti su Plutarco

Book Subtitle

Raccolti, riveduti e corretti con bibliografia unificata

Authors

Angelo Casanova

Peer Reviewed

Number of Pages

366

Publication Year

2025

Copyright Information

© 2025 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

Metadata License

CC0 1.0

Publisher Name

Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0824-6

ISBN Print

979-12-215-0823-9

eISBN (pdf)

979-12-215-0824-6

eISBN (xml)

979-12-215-0825-3

Series Title

Studi e saggi

Series ISSN

2704-6478

Series E-ISSN

2704-5919

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