Generic Enrichment in Plutarch’s Lives

This volume addresses the important literary phenomenon of ‘generic enrichment’ in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives . It examines the ways in which features of other genres are deployed and incorporated in Plutarch’s biographies and the effects of this on the texts themselves and readers’ responses to them. ‘Generic enrichment’, a term coined by Stephen Harrison with reference to Latin poetry, is used here to refer to the different ways in which a text of one genre might incorporate or evoke features o