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After a brief introduction which highlights the close connection between religion and politics in Greece, the author starking from Plutarch and bearing in mind the testimony of Herodotus analyses the role of religion in the propaganda around the figure of Themistocles. According to the reading of the oracles dictated by Apollo in Hdt., VII 140 and 141 and to Themistocles political relations with the Spartans and Delphi in the period before and after Salamis, the author is inclined to situate the first oracle before Tempe and the second afterwards, arguing for Themistocles' manipulation of then so as to adjust them to the requirements of the events. ; After a brief introduction which highlights the close connection between religion and politics in Greece, the author starking from Plutarch and bearing in mind the testimony of Herodotus analyses the role of religion in the propaganda around the figure of Themistocles. According to the reading of the oracles dictated by Apollo in Hdt., VII 140 and 141 and to Themistocles political relations with the Spartans and Delphi in the period before and after Salamis, the author is inclined to situate the first oracle before Tempe and the second afterwards, arguing for Themistocles' manipulation of then so as to adjust them to the requirements of the events.

The phrase we read in Cat. Ma. 1.5, «ό λόγος ώσπερ δεύτερον σωμα», gives us a good idea about the importance devoted by Plutarch to the rhetorical elements, as a topic of his biographical outline. Certainly, he finds this topic in the previous encomiastic and biographical literature; but he makes it his own in the Parallel Lives, underlining mainly its moral, pedagogical and political functions. In this manner, the rhetorical attitudes of Plutarch's politicians, distinct, as a result, from the military, become an essential feature of Plutarch's biographical technique. ; La frase que leemos en Cat. Ma. 1.5, «ό λόγος ώσπερ δεύτερον σωμα», ilustra bastante bien la importancia que concede Plutarco a los elementos retóricos, como tópico del esquema biográfico. Sin duda encuentra este tópico en la literatura encomiástica y biográfica previa; pero lo hace propio en las Vidas Paralelas, subrayando sobre todo su función moral, pedagógica y política. De este modo, las actitudes retóricas de los políticos plutarqueos, diferentes gracias a ellas de los militares, se convierten en un rasgo esencial de la técnica biográfica de Plutarco.

After a brief introduction which highlights the close connection between religion and politics in Greece, the author starking from Plutarch and bearing in mind the testimony of Herodotus analyses the role of religion in the propaganda around the figure of Themistocles. According to the reading of the oracles dictated by Apollo in Hdt., VII 140 and 141 and to Themistocles political relations with the Spartans and Delphi in the period before and after Salamis, the author is inclined to situate the first oracle before Tempe and the second afterwards, arguing for Themistocles' manipulation of then so as to adjust them to the requirements of the events.