Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (Brill's Plutarch Studies, 10)

About the Author\nJeffrey Beneker, Ph.D. (2002) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He has published on ancient biography and Byzantine literature, including The Passionate Statesman (Oxford, 2012).
Craig Cooper, Ph.D. (1992) University of British Columbia, is a Professor of Classics at the University of Lethbridge. He has published on ancient Greek biography, rhetoric, and law, including Epigraphy and the Greek Historian (University of Toronto Press, 2008).
Noreen Humble, Ph.D. (1997) McMaster University, is Professor of Classics at the University of Calgary and Associate Director of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. She is the editor of Plutarch’s Lives: Parallelism and Purpose (Classical Press of Wales, 2010).
Frances B. Titchener, Ph.D. (1988) University of Texas, Austin, is Professor of Classics and History at Utah State University. She has been a visiting scholar in Leuven and Rethymno, and co-edited numerous books, including the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Plutarch.
Contributors are: Eran Almagor, Colin Bailey, Frederick E. Brenk, Bernard Boulet, James T. Chlup, Brad L. Cook, Craig Cooper, Joseph Geiger, Chandra Giroux, Noreen Humble, Susan G. Jacobs, Michael Nerdahl, Charles W. Oughton, Christopher Pelling, Thomas C. Rose, Rex Stem.\nThis book examines passages in Plutarch’s works that foil expectations and whose silence invites closer examination. The contributors question omissions of authors, works, people, and places, and they examine Plutarch’s reticence to comment where he usually would.