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A companion to Plutarch / edited by Mark Beck.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell companions to the ancient worldPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781118316450
  • 1118316452
  • 9781405194310
  • 1405194316
  • 9781118316238
  • 1118316231
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Companion to Plutarch.DDC classification:
  • 888/.0108 23
LOC classification:
  • PA4382 .C64 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Mark Beck -- Plutarch in Context. Plutarch and Rome / Philip A Stadter -- Plutarch and the Second Sophistic / Thomas A Schmitz -- The Role of Philosophy and Philosophers in the Imperial Period / Michael Trapp -- Plutarch's . Plutarch and Platonism / John Dillon -- Plutarch, Aristotle, and the Peripatetics / Francesco Becchi -- Plutarch and the Stoics / Jan Opsomer -- Plutarch and Epicureanism / Eleni Kechagia-Ovseiko -- Plutarch and the Skeptics / Mauro Bonazzi -- Practical Ethics / Lieve Van Hoof -- Political Philosophy / Christopher Pelling -- Religion and Myth / Rainer Hirsch-Luipold -- Poetry and Education / Ewen Bowie -- Love and Marriage / Georgia Tsouvala -- The Sympotic Works / Frieda Klotz -- Animals in Plutarch / Stephen T Newmyer -- Plutarch the Antiquarian / Pascal Payen -- Plutarch's Biographical Projects. The / Aristoula Georgiadou -- Plutarch's and / Lukas de Blois -- The and the / Eran Almagor -- The Project of the / Joseph Geiger -- / Alexei V Zadorojnyi -- Compositional Methods in the / Luc Van der Stockt -- The Prologues / Timothy E Duff -- Morality, Characterization, and Individuality / Anastasios G Nikolaidis -- Childhood and Youth / Carmen Soares -- Death and Other Kinds of Closure / Craig Cooper -- The / David HJ Larmour -- The Use of Historical Sources / Maria Teresa Schettino -- Tragedy and the Hero / Judith Mossman -- The Philosopher-King / Bernard Boulet -- The Socratic Paradigm / Mark Beck -- Fate and Fortune / Frances B Titchener -- The Perils of Ambition / Françoise Frazier -- Sex, Eroticism, and Politics / Jeffrey Beneker -- Philanthropy, Dignity, and Euergetism / Geert Roskam -- The Reception of Plutarch. The Reception of Plutarch from Antiquity to the Italian Renaissance / Marianne Pade -- The Renaissance in France / Olivier Guerrier -- The Reception of Plutarch in France after the Renaissance / Françoise Frazier -- The Reception of Plutarch in Spain / Aurelio Pérez Jiménez -- Shakespeare / Gordon Braden -- The Post-Renaissance Reception of Plutarch in England / Judith Mossman -- Plutarch and the Early American Republic / Carl J Richard.
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Introduction / Mark Beck -- Plutarch in Context. Plutarch and Rome / Philip A Stadter -- Plutarch and the Second Sophistic / Thomas A Schmitz -- The Role of Philosophy and Philosophers in the Imperial Period / Michael Trapp -- Plutarch's . Plutarch and Platonism / John Dillon -- Plutarch, Aristotle, and the Peripatetics / Francesco Becchi -- Plutarch and the Stoics / Jan Opsomer -- Plutarch and Epicureanism / Eleni Kechagia-Ovseiko -- Plutarch and the Skeptics / Mauro Bonazzi -- Practical Ethics / Lieve Van Hoof -- Political Philosophy / Christopher Pelling -- Religion and Myth / Rainer Hirsch-Luipold -- Poetry and Education / Ewen Bowie -- Love and Marriage / Georgia Tsouvala -- The Sympotic Works / Frieda Klotz -- Animals in Plutarch / Stephen T Newmyer -- Plutarch the Antiquarian / Pascal Payen -- Plutarch's Biographical Projects. The / Aristoula Georgiadou -- Plutarch's and / Lukas de Blois -- The and the / Eran Almagor -- The Project of the / Joseph Geiger -- / Alexei V Zadorojnyi -- Compositional Methods in the / Luc Van der Stockt -- The Prologues / Timothy E Duff -- Morality, Characterization, and Individuality / Anastasios G Nikolaidis -- Childhood and Youth / Carmen Soares -- Death and Other Kinds of Closure / Craig Cooper -- The / David HJ Larmour -- The Use of Historical Sources / Maria Teresa Schettino -- Tragedy and the Hero / Judith Mossman -- The Philosopher-King / Bernard Boulet -- The Socratic Paradigm / Mark Beck -- Fate and Fortune / Frances B Titchener -- The Perils of Ambition / Françoise Frazier -- Sex, Eroticism, and Politics / Jeffrey Beneker -- Philanthropy, Dignity, and Euergetism / Geert Roskam -- The Reception of Plutarch. The Reception of Plutarch from Antiquity to the Italian Renaissance / Marianne Pade -- The Renaissance in France / Olivier Guerrier -- The Reception of Plutarch in France after the Renaissance / Françoise Frazier -- The Reception of Plutarch in Spain / Aurelio Pérez Jiménez -- Shakespeare / Gordon Braden -- The Post-Renaissance Reception of Plutarch in England / Judith Mossman -- Plutarch and the Early American Republic / Carl J Richard.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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