Plutarch’s Religious Landscapes
Title | Plutarch’s Religious Landscapes PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 408 |
Release | 2020-11-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004443541 |
The polygraph from Chaeronea includes in Moralia and Lives a wide range of interesting views on religious and philosophical matters: philosophical theology, cult, ethics, politics, natural sciences, hermeneutics, atheism, and the afterlife. The essays included in Plutarch’s Religious Landscapes offer a glance into these views.
Plutarch and his Contemporaries
Title | Plutarch and his Contemporaries PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 511 |
Release | 2024-02-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004687300 |
The volume puts into the spotlight overlaps and points of intersection between Plutarch and other writers of the imperial period. It contains twenty-eight contributions which adopt a comparative approach and put into sharper relief ongoing debates and shared concerns, revealing a complex topography of rearrangements and transfigurations of inherited topics, motifs, and ideas. Reading Plutarch alongside his contemporaries brings out distinctive features of his thought and uncovers peculiarities in his use of literary and rhetorical strategies, imagery, and philosophical concepts, thereby contributing to a better understanding of the empire’s culture in general, and Plutarch in particular.
Frederick E. Brenk on Plutarch, Religious Thinker and Biographer
Title | Frederick E. Brenk on Plutarch, Religious Thinker and Biographer PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick E Brenk |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2017-07-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004348778 |
Frederick E. Brenk, Plutarch, Religious Thinker and Biographer: “The Religious Spirit of Plutarch of Chaironeia” and “The Life of Mark Antony” includes the updated and revised version of two seminal articles on Plutarch’s Lives and Moralia by F. E. Brenk originally published in ANRW.
Plutarch in the Religious and Philosophical Discourse of Late Antiquity
Title | Plutarch in the Religious and Philosophical Discourse of Late Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2012-10-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004236856 |
Either as insider or as sensitive observer, Plutarch provides us with exceptional evidence to reconstruct the spiritual and intellectual atmosphere of the first centuries CE. This collection of articles sheds important light on the religious and philosophical discourse of Late Antiquity.
Plutarch's Moon
Title | Plutarch's Moon PDF eBook |
Author | Luisa Lesage Gárriga |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 152 |
Release | 2023-03-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004544178 |
In Plutarch’s Moon Luisa Lesage Gárriga offers a new approach on Plutarch’s views on cosmos, the afterlife and salvation, focusing on one of his most fascinating treatises. Dealing with the nature and function of the moon from multiple perspectives, this treatise offers a comprehensive overview of scientific knowledge and religious-philosophical thought from the first centuries CE. Yet, up until now no single scholar has attempted an integral approach to its various and complementary perspectives, generally focusing on a specific aspect, as if they were unrelated. By means of this study, the author shows that De facie is a literary creation that reflects and conveys a coherent worldview, finally providing a solid and overarching understanding of the treatise.
Plutarch's Cities
Title | Plutarch's Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Lucia Athanassaki |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 399 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Cities and towns in literature |
ISBN | 0192859919 |
Plutarch's Cities is the first comprehensive attempt to assess the significance of the polis in Plutarch's works from several perspectives, namely the polis as a physical entity, a lived experience, and a source of inspiration, the polis as a historical and sociopolitical unit, the polis as a theoretical construct and paradigm to think with. The book's multifocal and multi-perspectival examination of Plutarch's cities - past and present, real and ideal-yields some remarkable corrections of his conventional image. Plutarch was neither an antiquarian nor a philosopher of the desk. He was not oblivious to his surroundings but had a keen interest in painting, sculpture, monuments, and inscriptions, about which he acquired impressive knowledge in order to help him understand and reconstruct the past. Cult and ritual proved equally fertile for Plutarch's visual imagination. Whereas historiography was the backbone of his reconstruction of the past and evaluation of the present, material culture, cult, and ritual were also sources of inspiration to enliven past and present alike. Plato's descriptions of Athenian houses and the Attic landscape were also a source of inspiration, but Plutarch clearly did his own research, based on autopsy and on oral and written sources. Plutarch, Plato's disciple and Apollo's priest, was on balance a pragmatist. He did not resist the temptation to contemplate the ideal city, but he wrote much more about real cities, as he experienced or imagined them.
In Mist Apparelled
Title | In Mist Apparelled PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick E. Brenk |
Publisher | Brill Archive |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 1977-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9789004052413 |