Dressed for Success? : Clothing in Plutarch's Demetrius
- Submitting institution
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Coventry University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 23130193
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199662326.003.0010
- Book title
- Fame and Infamy : Characterization in Greek and Roman Biography and Historiography
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780199662326
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Supplementary information
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- 29 - Classics
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This is a chapter in a volume with three editors, one of them Mossman. The chapters were peer-reviewed by the co-editors. The volume was published by OUP as a Festschrift for the retiring Regius Professor of Greek and reflected his interests in ancient biography and historiography. The chapter focusses on one passage in Plutarch’s Life of Demetrius which concerns an elaborate cloak made for him and the role the designs on the cloak play in his characterization. In general the essay argues for a more rounded view of the characterization of Demetrius than has been generally admitted. The methodology was close reading combined with dress theory. The volume was reviewed in Classical Review 66.2 (2016), 347-49 by Jeff Tatum, Professor of Classics at the University of Wellington in New Zealand. Of the volume he said: ‘Festschriften, even those published in honour of superlative scholars, too often become little more than repositories for indifferent scholarship. Not this time. The editors, whose exertions are acknowledged in nearly every chapter, have assembled 24 superb contributors, each of whom has furnished a fine essay focused closely on characterisation or on aspects of the intellectual environment of Graeco-Roman literature that influenced the figuration of character in ancient prose. A critical analysis of each paper is impossible here, but it may be useful to offer a summary description of the principal issues addressed by each contributor.’ Of Mossman he says: ‘In his Demetrius, Plutarch lends subtlety to his protagonist's depiction through his carefully wrought descriptions of the king's wardrobe, as M. (Chapter 10) demonstrates.’
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- Non-English
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