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Author : José Ribeiro Ferreira,Delfim F. Leão,Carlos A. Martins de Jesus
Publisher : Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : 9789897210112
Author : Bram Demulder
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789462703292
A groundbreaking and wide-ranging presentation of Plutarch’s ethics based on the cosmological foundation of his ethical thought Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 45-120 CE) is the most prolific and influential moral philosopher in the Platonic tradition. This book is a fundamental reappraisal of Plutarch’s ethical thought. It shows how Plutarch based his ethics on his particular interpretation of Plato’s cosmology: our quest for the good life should start by considering the good cosmos in which we live. The practical consequences of this cosmological foundation permeate various domains of Greco-Roman life: the musician, the organiser of a drinking party, and the politician should all be guided by cosmology. After exploring these domains, this book offers in-depth interpretations of two works which can only be fully understood by paying attention to cosmological aspects: Dialogue on Love and On Tranquillity of Mind.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004427860
The Dynamics of Intertextuality in Plutarch explores the numerous aspects and functions of intertextual links both within the Plutarchan corpus itself (intratextuality) and in relation with other authors, works, genres or discourses of Ancient Greek literature (interdiscursivity, intergenericity, intermateriality).
Author : Lucia Athanassaki,Frances Titchener
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Cities and towns in literature
ISBN : 9780192859914
Plutarch's Cities is the first comprehensive attempt to assess the significance of the polis in Plutarch's works from several perspectives, namely the polis as a physical entity, a lived experience, and a source of inspiration, the polis as a historical and sociopolitical unit, the polis as a theoretical construct and paradigm to think with. The book's multifocal and multi-perspectival examination of Plutarch's cities - past and present, real and ideal-yields some remarkable corrections of his conventional image. Plutarch was neither an antiquarian nor a philosopher of the desk. He was not oblivious to his surroundings but had a keen interest in painting, sculpture, monuments, and inscriptions, about which he acquired impressive knowledge in order to help him understand and reconstruct the past. Cult and ritual proved equally fertile for Plutarch's visual imagination. Whereas historiography was the backbone of his reconstruction of the past and evaluation of the present, material culture, cult, and ritual were also sources of inspiration to enliven past and present alike. Plato's descriptions of Athenian houses and the Attic landscape were also a source of inspiration, but Plutarch clearly did his own research, based on autopsy and on oral and written sources. Plutarch, Plato's disciple and Apollo's priest, was on balance a pragmatist. He did not resist the temptation to contemplate the ideal city, but he wrote much more about real cities, as he experienced or imagined them.
Author : Raphaëla Dubreuil
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004681743
An orator turns to an actor for advice, citizens expect assemblies to unfold like dramas, and a theater-goer cries at a play thinking of his fallen enemy: no Life escapes the mention of theatrical imagery in Plutarch’s paralleled biographies. And yet this is the first book not only to examine Plutarch’s consistent and coherent use of this imagery but also to argue that it is systematically employed to describe, explore, and evaluate politics in action. The theater becomes Plutarch’s invitation for us to question and uncover key moments of Athenian, Spartan, and Roman history as it unfolds.
Author : Frances B. Titchener,Alexei V. Zadorojnyi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780521766227
Engaging introduction by leading scholars to the many aspects of Plutarch's numerous and varied works and their subsequent reception.
Author : Hugh Liebert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107148789
Recasts Plutarch's Lives as a work of political philosophy emerging from the imperial encounter of Greece and Rome.
Author : Michiel Meeusen
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789462700840
The role of natural science in the Roman Imperial Era In his Quaestiones naturales, Plutarch unmistakably demonstrates a huge interest in the world of natural phenomena. The work of this famous intellectual and philosopher from Chaeronea consists of forty-one natural problems that address a wide variety of questions, sometimes rather peculiar ones, pertaining to ancient Greek physics, including problems related to the fields of zoology, botany, meteorology and their respective subdisciplines. By providing a thorough study of and commentary on this generally neglected text, written by one of the most influential and prolific writers from Antiquity, this book contributes to our better understanding of Plutarch’s natural scientific programme and the condition and role of ancient natural science in the Roman Imperial Era in general.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004404472
This volume approaches Plutarch’s intellectual and professional activity, and the the way he managed to cover such an impressive range of areas and interests, which make of his work an inexhaustible source of information on the ancient world.
Author : Lunette Warren
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781643150406
The full extent of Plutarch’s moral educational program remains largely understudied, at least in those aspects pertaining to women and the gendered other. As a result, scholarship on his views on women have differed significantly in their conclusions, with some scholars suggesting that he is overwhelmingly positive towards women and marriage and perhaps even a “precursor to feminism,” and others arguing that he was rather negative on the issue. Like a Captive Bird: Gender and Virtue in Plutarch is an examination of these educational methods employed in Plutarch’s work to regulate the expression of gender identity in women and men. In six chapters, author Lunette Warren analyzes Plutarch’s ideas about women and gender in Moralia and Lives. The book examines the divergences between real and ideal, the aims and methods of moral philosophy and psychagogic practice as they relate to identity formation, and Plutarch’s theoretical philosophy and metaphysics. Warren argues that gender is a flexible mode of being that expresses a relation between body and soul, and that gender and virtue are inextricably entwined. Plutarch’s expression of gender is also an expression of a moral condition that signifies relationships of power, Warren claims, especially power relationships between the husband and wife. Uncovered in these texts is evidence of a redistribution of power, which allows some women to dominate other women and, in rare cases, men too. Like a Captive Bird offers a unique and fresh interpretation of Plutarch’s metaphysics which centers gender as one of the organizational principles of nature. It is aimed at scholars of Plutarch, ancient philosophy, and ancient gender studies, especially those who are interested in feminist studies of antiquity.
Author : Ursula Westwood
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004681934
Josephus’ Antiquities introduces Moses as the Jewish lawgiver, adapting the biblical account for a new audience. But who was that audience, and what did they understand by the term lawgiver (νομοθέτης)? This book uses Plutarch’s Lives as a proxy for an imagined audience, providing a historically grounded but flexible model of a lawgiver, against which some of the otherwise invisible forces shaping Josephus’ choices are thrown into sharp relief. This method reveals patterns of appeal and challenge in Josephus’ intriguing and lively account of Moses’ legislative activities.
Author : Jan Opsomer,Geert Roskam,Frances B. Titchener
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789462700765
Plutarch was a brilliant Platonist, an erudite historian, a gifted author of highly polished literary dialogues, a priest of Apollo at Delphi, and a devoted politician in his hometown Chaeronea. He felt confident in the most technical and specialized discussions, yet was not afraid of rhetorical generalizations. In his voluminous oeuvre, he appears as a sharp polemicist and a loving father, an ardent pupil but also a kind, inspiring teacher, a sober historian and a teller of wondrous tales. In view of all these different personae, erudite versatility is without any doubt a major characteristic of Plutarch’s works. A Versatile Gentleman is dedicated to Luc Van der Stockt, professor emeritus of Greek language and literature at KU Leuven and a truly versatile gentleman. The volume aims to do justice to his and Plutarch’s versatility by discussing the Chaeronean from many different angles. As such, it sheds new light on the coherence of, and the tensions in, Plutarch’s thinking and writing.
Author : M. David Litwa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781108843997
Ancient theories of posthuman transformation can shape, chasten, and reform modern (biotechnical) theories of posthuman enhancement.
Author : D F Leão,PJ Rhodes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857739308
Solon (c 658-558 BC) is famous as both statesman and poet but also, and above all, as the paramount lawmaker of ancient Athens. Though his works survive only in fragments, we know from the writings of Herodotus and Plutarch that his constitutional reforms against the venality, greed and political power-play of Attica's tyrants and noblemen were hugely influential-and may even be said to have laid the foundations of western democracy. Solon's legal injunctions covered the widest range of topics and issues: economics and labour; sexual morality; social issues; and society and politics. Yet despite their fame and influence (and Solon's life and work generated a lively reception history), no complete edition of these writings has yet been published. This book offers the definitive critical edition of Solon's laws that has long been needed. It comprises the original Greek fragments with English translations, commentaries, a comprehensive introduction and important comparative Latin texts. It will be enthusiastically welcomed by specialists in ancient Greek language and history.
Author : André Carneiro,Neil Christie,Pilar Diarte Blasco
Publisher : Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789892618982
This volume is the fruit of a highly productive international research gathering academic and professional (field- and museum) colleagues to discuss new results and approaches, recent finds and alternative theoretical assessments of the period of transition and transformation of classical towns in Late Antiquity. Experts from an array of modern countries attended and presented to help compare and contrast critically archaeologies of diverse regions and to debate the qualities of the archaeology and the current modes of study. While a number of papers inevitably focused on evidence available for both Spain and Portugal, we were delighted to have a spread of contributions that extended the picture to other territories in the Late Roman West and Mediterranean. The emphasis was very much on the images presented by archaeology (rescue and research works, recent and past), but textual data were also brought into play by various contributors.
