@article{kzm 72158, author = {Mark De Wilde}, title = {Οξυ το παθοζ: Cleopatra's einde volgens Plutarchus. Een tragische enscenering}, volume = {58}, year = {2004}, url = {https://openjournals.ugent.be/kzm/article/id/72158/}, issue = {0}, doi = {10.21825/kzm.v58i0.17375}, abstract = {<p>The exact circumstances surrounding the death of Cleopatra VII cannot<br>reliably be recovered from Plutarch's seemingly detailed description of it at<br>the end of his Vita Antonii. While displaying an otherwise exemplary narrative<br>skill, the (perhaps unsolvable) question remains to what extent the biographer<br>intentionally depicts the queen as a human being, especially when compared<br>with the parallel account by Cassius Dio. Indeed, the last descendant of the<br>Ptolemies is undeniably endowed with 'tragic' qualities, indications of which<br>can be discerned from lexical instances, as well as from elements of the<br>Aristotelian tragedy. This contribution therefore tries to conduct a small-scale<br>analysis in the same vein as other more comprehensive literary studies on the<br>'tragic dimension' of Plutarch's Vitae (viz. Crassus, Alexander) attaching a<br>meaningful significance to this aspect, in particular when compared to other<br>Lives (viz. Caesar) where it is rather unexpectedly missing.</p>}, month = {1}, pages = {125-140}, issn = {2736-2175}, publisher={Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis}, journal = {Handelingen - Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse maatschappij voor taal- en letterkunde en geschiedenis} }