- I miei scritti su Plutarco
- Angelo Casanova
Yernos y cuñados de Plutarco
- Angelo Casanova
- © 2025 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0824-6.26
This paper was written in Spanish for a lecture in Málaga. From the Consolatio uxoris we learn that Plutarch and Timoxena had one single daughter, who was born after four sons and only lived to be two years old. Since in the Quaestiones Convivales we encounter three different characters (Craton, Firmus, and Patrocleas) indicated as Plutarch’s gambroi, some critics state them to be his sons-in-law, thus supposing the existence of three married daughters; others prefer to consider them as the husbands of Plutarch’s nieces; still others reject both conclusions and think the term gambroi merely refers to “relatives” in general. A careful analysis of all the passages involved clearly shows, in the first place, that gambrós can only refer to sons-in-law and brothers-in-law; therefore, in the case in hand, the three men were Plutarch’s brothers-in-law: very probably three brothers of his wife Timoxena.
- Keywords:
- Plutarch,
- Consolatio uxoris,
- Quaestiones Convivales,
- Family,
- Brothers-in-law,
- Sons-in-law,
University of Florence, Italy
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Titolo del capitolo
Yernos y cuñados de Plutarco
Autori
Angelo Casanova
Lingua
Spagnolo
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0824-6.26
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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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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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Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
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2704-5919