Judith Mossman

Plutarch and His Intellectual World

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of original essays examining Plutarch's writings, ranging over Plutarch's relations with his contemporaries and his engagement in philosophical debate, as well as his views on social issues such as education and gender.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Classical Press of Wales
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781914535420
• ISBN-10: 1914535421
• Artikelnr.: 71230431

Autorenporträt

Judith Mossman is Professor Emerita at Coventry University. She specialises in Greek literature of the fifth century BC and the second/third century AD and is the author of two books and multiple edited volumes and articles on Euripides and Plutarch. She is currently Professor Emerita of Classics at Coventry University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction 1. Hadrian, Favorinus, and Plutarch
Ewen Bowie 2. Favorinus Versus Epictetus on the Philosophical Heritage of Plutarch: A Debate on Epistemology
Jan Opsomer 3. Thyrsus
Bearer of the Academy or Enthusiast for Plato? Plutarch's de Stoicorum Repugnantiis
George Boys
Stones 4. Family and the Formation of Character in Plutarch
Francesca Albini 5. From Olympias to Aretaphila: Women in Politics in Plutarch
Karin Blomqvist 6. Plutarch, Amatorius 13
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Donald Russell 7. Health and Politics in Plutarch's De Tuenda Sanitate Praecepta
Luigi Senzasono 8. Plutarch's Dinner of the Seven Wise Men and Its Place in Symposiom Literature
Judith Mossman 9. Plutarch, Brutus and Brutus' Greek and Latin Letters
John Moles 10. Moral Ambiguity in Plutarch's Lysander
Sulla
Tim Duff 11. Severed Heads: Individual Portraits and Irrational Forces in Plutarch's Galba and Otho
Rhiannon Ash 12. Plutarch on Caesar's Fall
Christopher Pelling 13. Plutarch and the End of History
John Dillon Index of Passages General Index