Zadorojnyi, A. V. (2010) “Hôsper en esoptrôi: The Rhetoric and Philosophy of Plutarch’s Mirrors.” In Humble (2010) 169-95.

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It will be argued that the programmatic self-referential announcement in Aemilius 1.1-3 is mooted as a ‘readerly’ solution to the deeply entrenched controversy about the epistemological and paideutic value of the mirror. In the last section will discussed a possible new clue towards appreciation, through the mirror-metaphor, of the paired and comparative make-up of the Parallel Lives.

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