Book Details
Orange Code:95725
Paperback:645 pages
Publications:
Categories:
Sections:
1. Plutarch and Rome2. Plutarch and the Second Sophistic3. The Role of Philosophy and Philosophers in the Imperial Period4. Plutarch and Platonism5. Plutarch, Aristotle, and the Peripatetics6. Plutarch and the Stoics7. Plutarch and Epicureanism8. Plutarch and the Skeptics9. Practical Ethics10. Political Philosophy11. Religion and Myth12. Poetry and Education13. Love and Marriage14. The Sympotic Works15. Animals in Plutarch16. Plutarch the Antiquarian17. The Lives of the Caesars18. Plutarch’s Galba and Otho19. The Aratus and the Artaxerxes20. The Project of the Parallel Lives: Plutarch’s Conception of Biography21. Kratein onomatôn: Language and Value in Plutarch22. Compositional Methods in the Lives23. The Prologues24. Morality, Characterization, and Individuality25. Childhood and Youth26. Death and Other Kinds of Closure27. The Synkrisis28. The Use of Historical Sources29. Tragedy and the Hero30. The Philosopher-King31. The Socratic Paradigm32. Fate and Fortune33. The Perils of Ambition34. Sex, Eroticism, and Politics35. Philanthropy, Dignity, and Euergetism36. The Reception of Plutarch from Antiquity to the Italian Renaissance37. The Renaissance in France: Amyot and Montaigne38. The Reception of Plutarch in France after the Renaissance39. The Reception of Plutarch in Spain40. Shakespeare41. The Post-Renaissance Reception of Plutarch in England42. Plutarch and the Early American Republic
Description:
A Companion to Plutarch offers a broad survey of the famous historian and biographer; a coherent, comprehensive, and elegant presentation of Plutarch’s thought and influence
- Constitutes the first survey of its kind, a unified and accessible guide that offers a comprehensive discussion of all major aspects of Plutarch’s oeuvre
- Provides essential background information on Plutarch’s world, including his own circle of influential friends (Greek and Roman), his travels, his political activity, and his relations with Trajan and other emperors
- Offers contextualizing background, the literary and cultural details that shed light on some of the fundamental aspects of Plutarch’s thought
- Surveys the ideologically crucial reception of the Greek Classical Period in Plutarch’s writings
- Follows the currents of recent serious scholarship, discussing perennial interests, and delving into topics and works not formerly given serious attention
|