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• Title:
  Przyjaciel czy pochlebca? Żona jako lustro w „Zaleceniach małżeńskich” Plutarcha (14, 139f–140a)
• Creator:
  Sowa, Joanna
• Contributor:
  Dr hab. prof. UŁ Joanna Sowa – Uniwersytet Łódzki, Katedra Filologii Klasycznej, Zakład Hellenistyki i Religioznawstwa, ul. Pomorska 171/173, 90-236 Łódź. Classical philologist, head of the Chair of Classical Philology at University of Łódź. Research interests: literature and philosophy of ancient Greece, especially ethics by Plato and Aristotle. Publications: Platon, Lizys, „Collectanea Philologica” X (2007); Między Erosem i Arete. Przyjaźń w etyce Platona i Arystotelesa, Wydawnictwo UŁ, Łódź 2009.
• Description:
  In chapter 14 of the “Advice to the Bride and Groom” Plutarch recommends a wife should behave like a mirror, faithfully reflecting her husband’s moods and attitudes. In this paper I compare this piece of advice with other mirror-similes which have been related to human beings (as lovers, friends, flatterers, and models to follow) in ancient Greek and Roman literature, especially in Plutarch’s works. I conclude that the ideal Plutarchan wife has been situated, perhaps unintentionally, „between” friend and flatterer, because the mirror-simile in the “Advice…” symbolizes not only the true unity of man and his wife, but also the strict hierarchy amongst them.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  © Copyright by Uniwersytet Łódzki, Łódź 2015
• Date:
  2016.01.07;
  2015
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  Polish
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Collectanea Philologica;18 (2015)
• Subject:
  Plutarch;
  marriage;
  friendship;
  flattery;
  mirror
• Identifier:
  1733-0319;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/16301 ;
  2353-0901;
  10.18778/1733-0319.18.04
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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  image