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grbs-14271	Niehoff, Maren R.	Philo and Plutarch as Biographers: Parallel Responses to Roman Stoicism	2012	32	.pdf	application/pdf	11555	472	57	Niehoff ————— Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 52 (2012) 361–392 2012 Maren R. Niehoff Philo and Plutarch as Biographers: Parallel Responses to Roman Stoicism Maren R. Niehoff LUTARCH’S ACHIEVEMENT as a biographer has often been appreciated as a highly innovative development of ancient Aristotelian models.1 His famous portrayal of characters is indeed remarkable and clearly superior to the rather more schematic presentation of national heroes by Nepos, who has sometimes been drawn into the discussion as Plutarch’s closest predecessor.2 In this article I would like to introduce Philo of Alexandria as a significant precursor, who has been largely overlooked thus far, probably because he dealt with Biblical rather than Greco-Roman heroes.3 Despite this difference in their choice of protagonists, Philo and Plutarch re- 1 See esp. 3 Consider two important yet only partial exceptions: L. H. Feldman, Philo’s Portrayal of Moses in the Context of Ancient Judaism (Notre Dame 2007) 19–27, identifies Philo as a significant biographer before Plutarch, but does not yet provide an overall analysis of the two.	cache/grbs-14271.pdf	txt/grbs-14271.txt