This article summarizes (and properly arranges) the biographical information supplied by Plutarch about his wife in the Consolatio uxoris and his other works. It begins with the certain or very probable data, i.e. her name, her children, their names, their number and sequence; it also suggests some plausible considerations about her original family, i.e. about her father and brothers; and concludes with some (partly conjectural) clarifications about her marriage with Plutarch and about the difficulties that arose between their respective parents, finally raising a little suspicion about her age.
University of Florence, Italy
Titolo del capitolo
Timossena, la moglie di Plutarco
Autori
Angelo Casanova
Lingua
Italiano
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0824-6.29
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
Copyright
© 2025 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
I miei scritti su Plutarco
Sottotitolo del libro
Raccolti, riveduti e corretti con bibliografia unificata
Autori
Angelo Casanova
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
366
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
Copyright
© 2025 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
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
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919