Chapter 5. Politics as a site of moral education

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface 1
4. Editions, abbreviations, and other conventions 3
5. Symbols, orthography, and transliteration of Greek terms 10
6. Introduction 11
7. Chapter 1. Character change and character development in Plutarch: the significance of education in a range of settings 22
8. Chapter 2. Moral education between parents and children 42
9. Chapter 3. Moral training in the classroom 79
10. Chapter 4. The marital chamber as a school for well-ordered comportment: women’s education 108
11. Chapter 5. Politics as a site of moral education 126
12. Chapter 6. Moralising in the military field: Plutarch and the ethics of generalship 151
13. Chapter 7. Educating over wine: moral pedagogy in Plutarch’s Table Talk 173
14. Conclusion 195
15. Bibliography 204
16. Index of names and topics 238
17. Index of Plutarchan passages 247
18. Index of passages in other authors 259