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The Unity of Plutarch's Work

'Moralia' Themes in the 'Lives', Features of the 'Lives' in the 'Moralia'
  • Edited by: Anastasios Nikolaidis
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2008
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This volume of collected essays explores the premise that Plutarch’s work, notwithstanding its amazing thematic multifariousness, constantly pivots on certain ideological pillars which secure its unity and coherence. So, unlike other similar books which, more or less, concentrate on either the Lives or the Moralia or on some particular aspect(s) of Plutarch’s œuvre, the articles of the present volume observe Plutarch at work in both Lives and Moralia, thus bringing forward and illustrating the inner unity of his varied literary production.

The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly wide-ranging and the studies collected here inquire into many important issues of Plutarchean scholarship: the conditions under which Plutarch’s writings were separated into two distinct corpora, his methods of work and the various authorial techniques employed, the interplay between Lives and Moralia, Plutarch and politics, Plutarch and philosophy, literary aspects of Plutarch’s œuvre, Plutarch on women, Plutarch in his epistemological and socio-historical context. In sum, this book brings Plutarchean scholarship to date by revisiting and discussing older and recent problematization concerning Plutarch, in an attempt to further illuminate his personality and work.

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Anastasios G. Nikolaidis, University of Crete, Greece.

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"Der nützliche Sammelband ist dabei hilfreich, die außerordentlich vielen Facetten des Werkes Plutarchs aufzuzeigen."
Johannes Engels in: Sehepunkte 9/2009

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Frontmatter

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Contents

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Introduction

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1. The Formation of Plutarch’s Corpus
Synopsis

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Lives and Moralia: How Were Put Asunder. What Plutarch Hath Joined Together

Joseph Geiger
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2. Plutarch’s Methods of Work
Synopsis

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2a: How Plutarch deals with other genres
On the Problematic Classification of Some Rhetorical Elements in Plutarch

José Antonio Fernández Delgado
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La reutilización de citas de epigramas: una manifestación del diálogo intratextual en el corpus plutarqueo

Francisca Pordomingo Pardo
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Notes and Anecdotes: Observations on Cross-Genre Apophthegmata

Philip A. Stadter
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The Moral Interplay. Between Plutarch’s Political Precepts and Life of Demosthenes

Craig Cooper
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Grecs, Macédoniens et Romains au « test » d’Homère. Référence homérique et hellénisme chez Plutarque

Christophe Bréchet
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Moralia in the Lives: Tragedy and Theatrical Imagery in Plutarch’s Pompey

Diotima Papadi
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Scholarship and Morality: Plutarch’s Use of Inscriptions

Peter Liddel
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2b: Other authorial techniques
Plutarch’s Habits of Citation: Aspects of Difference

Ewen Bowie
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Why Does Plutarch’s Apollo Have Many Faces?

Bernard Boulet
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Plutarch’s Quaestiones Romanae and his Lives of Early Romans

Simon Verdegem
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How Lives Begin

Timothy E. Duff
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Plutarco compositor de Vitae y Moralia: análisis intratextual

Ana Vicente Sánchez
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Plutarch’s Heroes in the Moralia: a Matter of Variatio or Another (More Genuine) Outlook?

Anastasios G. Nikolaidis
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3. Moralia in Vitis
Synopsis

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Setting a Good Exemplum. Case Studies in the Moralia, the Lives as Case Studies

Frederick E. Brenk
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Sempre in bilico tra vizi e virtù

Jolanda Capriglione
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Moralia in the Lives: The Charge of Rashness in Pelopidas/Marcellus

Heinz Gerd Ingenkamp
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Is Plutarch’s Nicias Devout, Superstitious, or Both?

Frances B. Titchener
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Self-esteem and Image-building. On Anger in De cohibenda ira and in Some Lives

Luc Van der Stockt
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Genres and Their Implications: Meddlesomeness in On Curiosity versus the Lives

Lieve Van Hoof
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4. Plutarch and Politics
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The Ideal Statesman: A Commonplace in Plutarch’s Political Treatises, His Solon, and His Lycurgus

Lukas de Blois
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Two Roads to Politics. Plutarch on the Statesman’s Entry in Political Life

Geert Roskam
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The Education of Rulers in Theory (Mor.) and Practice (Vitae)

Sven-Tage Teodorsson
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Dion and Brutus: Philosopher Kings Adrift in a Hostile World

John Dillon
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Eunoia bei Plutarch: von den Praecepta Gerendae Reipublicae zu den Viten

Evangelos Alexiou
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Struggling with the Plêthos: Politics and Military Leadership in Plutarch’s Life of Lucullus

Manuel Tröster
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Greek Lawgivers in Plutarch: A comparison Between the Biographical Lycurgus and the Rhetorical Alexander

Elias Koulakiotis
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5. Plutarch and Philosophy
Synopsis

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Plutarch’s Life of Lycurgus and the Philosophical Use of Discourse

Benoît Castelnérac
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Boethus and Cassius: Two Epicureans in Plutarch

Patricia M. FitzGibbon
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« Fania di Lesbo, un filosofo e assai esperto di ricerca storica » (Plut., Them., 13, 5). Plutarco e i rapporti tra biografia, storia e filosofia etica

Federicomaria Muccioli
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Plutarch and the Character of the Sapiens

Delfim F. Leão
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Plutarch on Solon and Sophia

Jackson P. Hershbell
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El Banquete de los Siete Sabios y la Vida de Solón de Plutarco : mito político y contexto literario

José Vela Tejada
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Las Vidas frente a los Moralia en las alusiones plutarqueas sobre Solón

Inés Calero Secall
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6. Literary Aspects of Plutarch’s OEuvre
Synopsis

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Parallel Narratives: the Liberation of Thebes in De Genio Socratis and in Pelopidas

Christopher Pelling
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Standing in the Shadows: Plutarch and the Emperors in the Lives and Moralia

Rhiannon Ash
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Plutarque et la scène du banquet

Alain Billault
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El trofeo de Maratón: Adaptación y desarrollo de un tópico ético en Plutarco

Aurelio Pérez Jiménez
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Recursos humorísticos en la obra de Plutarco

Vicente Ramón Palerm
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Some Notes on Grammarians in Plutarch

Marietta Horster
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La dinastía de los Ptolomeos en Plutarco: etopeya de los personajes

Mónica Durán Mañas
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Plutarco y la elegía helenística

Rafael J. Gallé Cejudo
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Plutarch and the Music

Roosevelt Araújo Da Rocha Júnior
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7. Women, Eros, Marriage, and Parenthood in Plutarch
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Donne, cultura e società nelle Vite Parallele di Plutarco

Gabriele Marasco
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El prototipo de mujer espartana en Plutarco

Dámaris Romero González
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Plutarch on the Role of Eros in a Marriage

Jeffrey Beneker
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Integrating Marriage and Homonoia

Georgia Tsouvala
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Parent-Child Affection and Social Relationships in Plutarch: Common Elements in Consolatio ad uxorem and Vitae

Carmen Soares
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8. Plutarch in his Epistemological and Socio-Historical Context
Synopsis

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Les digressions scientifiques dans les Vies de Plutarque

Jacques Boulogne
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Pharmakon en Plutarco

Rosa Ma Aguilar
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Deformity (anapêria): Plutarch’s Views of Reproduction and Imperfect Generation in the Moralia and Lives

Zlatko Plese
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Due testi a confronto: De Iside 352F–353E – Quaestio convivalis VIII, 8 728C– 730F.

Paola Volpe Cacciatore
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Plutarch in Crete

George W. M. Harrison and Jane Francis
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Plutarco (Cim. 13, 4) y las islas Quelidonias

Carlos Schrader
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El judaísmo en las Vitae y Moralia de Plutarco

Israel Muñoz Gallarte
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Backmatter

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