ABSTRACT
As the renowned American intellectual and essayist R. W. Emerson once wrote, ‘Plutarch will be perpetually rediscovered from time to time as long as books last’ (Emerson 1968: 322). The contribution at hand can only confirm this. Our aim is to document the multi-faceted notion of disability and its particular manifestations in the corpus Plutarcheum and to analyse its function and value in the various discourses of Plutarch’s Moralia and Vitae parallelae. To interpret the work of the famous historian and philosopher of Chaeronea (c.45-120) in light of the relatively young discipline of disability studies is not an easy undertaking, though, for at least two reasons.
