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Examines the themes of fading Greekness in Philopoemen's life narrative and its implications.
Philopoemen is chronologically the last Greek whose biography is written by Plutarch. This paper examines the tools with which this distinction is rendered the main thematic of the Life, intertwined with a fatalistic tone conveying a reminiscence of past glories relived for one last time through the agency of Philopoemen, whose Life acts as a vehicle in an overarching simile referencing Greece herself. The narration exerts a tone of fatalism, among other themes, through the evocation of Greece's old age and destiny, so that this Life earns a closer study.
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