El banquete traicionero en las Vidas de Plutarco

Abstract

The aim of this study is to explore the topic of the death during the banquet in Plutarch’s Vitae. The motif is frequent in classical literature and various authors provide us with numerous examples and the question arises whether we are dealing with a literary topos or rather with historical facts. Can we find a structural relationship between the texts? By means of an analysis of Alexander, Arquias-Pelopidas and others shorter quotations we will try to determine how Plutarch saw these events and why the conjurers chose this occasion to fulfil their objective.