Plutarch and his intellectual world: essays on Plutarch
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Weitere Verfasser: Mossman, Judith ca. 20./21. Jh (HerausgeberIn, MitwirkendeR), Bowie, Ewen 1940- (MitwirkendeR)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Duckworth 1997
Swansea, SA The Classical Press of Wales
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Beschreibung:Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Hadrian, Favorinus, and Plutarch Ewen Bowie (Corpus Christi College, Oxford); 2. Favorinus versus Epictetus on the philosophical heritage of Plutarch. A debate on epistemology Jan Opsomer (Catholic University of Leuven); 3. Thyrsus-bearer of the Academy or enthusiast for Plato? Plutarch's de Stoicorum repugnantiis George Boys-Stones (St John's College, Oxford); 4. Family and the formation of character in Plutarch Francesca Albini (University College London)
5. From Olympias to Aretaphila: women in politics in Plutarch Karin Blomqvist (University of Lund)6. Plutarch, Amatorius 13-18 Donald Russell (St John's College, Oxford); 7. Health and politics in Plutarch's de tuenda sanitate praecepta Luigi Senzasono (Rome); 8. Plutarch's Dinner of the Seven Wise Men and its place in symposion literature Judith Mossman (Trinity College, Dublin); 9. Plutarch, Brutus and Brutus' Greek and Latin letters John Moles (University of Durham); 10. Moral ambiguity in Plutarch's Lysander-Sulla Tim Duff (University of Reading)
11. Severed heads: individual portraits and irrational forces in Plutarch's Galba and Otho Rhiannon Ash (St Hugh's College, Oxford)12. Plutarch on Caesar's fall Christopher Pelling (University College, Oxford); 13. Plutarch and the end of history John Dillon (Trinity College, Dublin); Index of Passages; General Index
Plutarch's writings, for long treated in a fragmentary way as a source for earlier periods, are now increasingly studied in their own right. The thirteen original essays in this volume range over Plutarch's relations with his contemporaries and his engagement in philosophical debate, his views on social issues such as education and gender, his modes of expression and his construction of argument. Also treated here are Plutarch's understanding and use of his antecedents, literary and historical, and the sophisticated techniques with which he conveyed his own vision. It is a theme of the present
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