An Opaque Mirror for Trajan A Literary Analysis and Interpretation of Plutarch's Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata KU Leuven
The authenticity of Plutarch’s Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, a collection of 494 apophthegms dedicated to the Roman emperor Trajan, was rejected in the nineteenth and twentieth century, after the influential attack of Volkmann (1869) 210-234. More recent research, however, is inclined to accept Plutarch’s authorship, in line with the defence of Flacelière (1976) and especially of Beck (2002). Because of these authenticity ...