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Plutarch and Dio on Cicero at the trial of Milo by Fotheringham, Lynn S.

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The wedding song in Greek literature and culture by Badnall, Toni Patricia

“…Philia relations in this era evolve to depict a more prominent mutuality between husband and wife, which also underpins the erotic writings of Plutarch. But more importantly, this author develops epithalamial topoi to present marriage as an 'initiation' for the bridal couple, which brings the thesis full-circle to the concept of transition while laying the foundation for one of the central concepts of Menander Rhetor's prescripts.…”
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'No freer than the helots': Messenian rebel behaviour in Pausanias' Messeniaka in comparative perspective by Langerwerf, Lydia L.B.M.

“…In chapters 4 and 5 I pursue the connection between slavery, τόλμη and ἀπόνοια further in a comparison of the Messenian revolt with Diodorus’ depiction of the two Sicilian slave wars, along with Plutarch’s and Appian’s account of Spartacus’ revolt. …”
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