- I miei scritti su Plutarco
- Angelo Casanova
Timoxena’s messenger’s journey (Plut. Cons. ux. 608B)
- Angelo Casanova
- © 2025 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0824-6.24
This paper was written in English for a conference in Madeira. The Consolation to His Wife is a short writing rapidly drafted by Plutarch in the span of a few days around the year 90 AD, in all likelihood at Tanagra, after learning about the death of his two-year-old daughter. From a punctual analysis of the incipit we gather that Timoxena’s messenger, whom she had sent to convey the news to her husband, travelled first from Chaeronea to Tanagra, then from Tanagra to Athens, while Plutarch was going from Athens to Tanagra. But, for some hitch, the two men did not meet on the way: the philosopher, therefore, only learned the bad news when he arrived at Tanagra, and was informed by another person, namely the messenger’s granddaughter. Plutarch, however, was not able to leave immediately for Chaeronea, clearly because of an engagement that held him at Tanagra for a few days (possibly a series of lectures). There, during those days, he wrote the Cons. ux., that he may have sent to his wife by a messenger (or possibly delivered in person as soon as he could get home). It was there, during those days, according to my further conjecture, that Timoxena’s messenger finally did catch up with him.
- Keywords:
- Plutarch,
- Consolatio uxoris,
- Plutarch’s family,
- granddaughter,
- Tanagra,
- Chaeronea,
- journeys,
University of Florence, Italy
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Titolo del capitolo
Timoxena’s messenger’s journey (Plut. Cons. ux. 608B)
Autori
Angelo Casanova
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0824-6.24
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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I miei scritti su Plutarco
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Raccolti, riveduti e corretti con bibliografia unificata
Autori
Angelo Casanova
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
366
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0824-6
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979-12-215-0823-9
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979-12-215-0824-6
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979-12-215-0825-3
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Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
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2704-5919