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Press, 2008), Paul Fleming, Exemplarity and Mediocrity: The Art
of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism (Stanford, CA:
Stanford University Press, 2009), and most recently Michele Lowrie
and Susanne Ludemann, eds., Exemplarity and Singularity: Thinking
through Particulars in Philosophy, Literature, and Law (Milton Park
and New York: Routledge, 2015).

4. For a discussion of the complex role that the paradeigma plays in
   Plato’s thought, see Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Republic: A Study (New
   Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005), ch. 8.


5. For the Plato/Aristotle distinction, see the “Introduction” in
   Alexander Gelley, ed., Unruly Examples: On the Rhetoric of
   Exemplarity (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995).


6. The connection between the past and the present implied by this
   view of history was rooted in a conception of history as cyclical, a
   repetitive sequence of events propelled by recurrent character types.


7. A helpful account of these developments is given in Jane D. Chaplin,
   Livy’s Exemplary History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).


8. For an extended treatment of Cicero’s use of exempla, see Henriette
   van der Blom, Cicero’s Role Models: The Political Strategy of a
   Newcomer (Oxford: University of Oxford Press, 2010).


9. H. W. Litchfield, “National Exempla Virtutis in Roman Literature”
   Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 25 (1914): 1–71.


10. Peter Brown, “The Saint as Exemplar in Late Antiquity”
    Representations 2 (Spring 1983), 6. On the same page of Brown’s
    article, the early Christian theologian Gregory of Nyssa is quoted
    describing Christianity as “an imitation of the divine nature.”


11. Brown, “The Saint as Exemplar in Late Antiquity,” 7.


12. 1 Cor. 10:33–34.


13. John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus (Grand Rapids, MI:
    Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1994), 121. Similarly, in the Epistle
    to the Ephesians (whose authorship is disputed), the author writes
    “As God’s dear children, try to be like him, and live in love as Christ
    loved you, and gave himself up on your behalf.” (Eph. 5:1–2)


14. Matthew 5:48. We would be remiss not to mention as well the
    importance, within Catholicism in particular, of the “exemplary