A Companion to Plutarch. (Record no. 115528)
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| Personal name | Beck, Mark. |
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| Title | A Companion to Plutarch. |
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| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Hoboken : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2013. |
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| Formatted contents note | Intro -- A Companion to Plutarch -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Translations and Abbreviations -- Introduction: Plutarch in Greece -- 1. Plutarch's Early Life -- 2. History and Topographies of Memory -- 3. Erga and Aesthetics -- 4. Characterization, Individuality, and the Condensation of Knowledge -- 5. Plutarch in Chaeronea -- 6. The Contents and Scope of this Volume -- Notes -- References -- Part I Plutarch in Context -- 1 Plutarch and Rome -- 1. A Greek in a Roman World -- 2. Visiting Rome: The Immersion Experience -- 3. Roman Friends -- 4. Evaluating Emperors, Past and Present -- 5. Delphi and Rome -- 6. Plutarch's View of Rome in the Parallel Lives -- 7. Living Under Roman Rule -- 2 Plutarch and the Second Sophistic -- 3 The Role of Philosophy and Philosophers in the Imperial Period -- 1. The Scope of Philosophia -- 2. Public and Social Profile -- 3. Encountering Philosophy -- 4. A Call to Personal Commitment -- 5. Choice and Division -- 6. Professional Output and Forms of Communication -- 7. Integration and Ambivalence -- Part II Plutarch's Moralia -- 4 Plutarch and Platonism -- 1. Ethics -- 2. Physics -- 3. Logic -- 4. Conclusion -- 5 Plutarch, Aristotle, and the Peripatetics -- 1. Philosophical Paideia -- 2. The Human Soul -- 3. Reason -- 4. Passion -- 5. Morality (Ēthos) -- 6. Wisdom (Phronēsis) -- 7. Theoretical and Ethical Virtues -- 8. Virtue: The Mesotēs of the Passions -- 9. Freedom from Pain or Grief (Alypia) -- 10. Impassiveness (Apatheia) -- 11. Freedom and Responsibility -- 12. Happiness -- 6 Plutarch and the Stoics -- 1. Theology, Providence, and Evil -- 2. Determinism and Moral Responsibility -- 3. The Soul -- 4. Moral Psychology -- 5. Polemics -- 6. Caution and the Quest for Truth -- 7 Plutarch and Epicureanism -- 1. Introduction: The Epicureans in Plutarch's Work. |
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| Formatted contents note | 2. Epicureanism in Plutarch's World: Survival and Hostility -- 3. Plutarch's Platonism vs. Epicureanism -- 4. Plutarch against Epicurean Materialism, Empiricism, and Pleasure -- 5. Conclusion -- 8 Plutarch and the Skeptics -- 1. Plutarch on the Difference between the Academics and the Pyrrhonists -- 2. Plutarch and Knowledge of the Sensory World -- 3. Plutarch and Knowledge of the Intelligible and Divine World -- 4. Platonism and Skepticism -- 9 Practical Ethics -- 1. Foundational Research -- 2. The Scope of the Practical Ethics -- 3. Characteristics of Plutarch's Practical Ethics -- 4. Conclusions and Outlook -- 10 Political Philosophy -- 11 Religion and Myth -- 1. Religion -- 2. Myth -- 12 Poetry and Education -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Evidence of Quotation -- 3. How a Young Man Should Listen to Poetry10 -- 4. Plutarch's Principles Applied -- 5. Conclusions -- 13 Love and Marriage -- 1. Introduction and Considerations -- 2. A Philosophy of Eros: Physical, Spiritual, Conjugal, and Political Eros -- 3. The Religious, Spiritual, and Eschatological Nature of Eros -- 4. Conjugal Eros: Women's Capability in Achieving Eros, and its Viability in Marriage -- 5. Political Eros: Appropriate and Inappropriate Relationships for Free Citizens (Both Male and Female) -- 14 The Sympotic Works -- 1. The Philosopher's Dinner Party: Plutarch's Table Talk -- 2. A Socratic Start -- 3. The Muses of Book 9 -- 4. Wise Men at Dinner -- 15 Animals in Plutarch -- 1. Plutarch's Writings on Animals: Characteristics and Challenges -- 2. Ancient Perceptions of Animals -- 3. Plutarch on Rationality in Animals -- 4. Plutarch on Animals: Appraisal and Survival -- 16 Plutarch the Antiquarian -- 1. What is an Antiquarian? Ancients and Moderns -- 2. Plutarch's Antiquarian Erudition -- 3. The Birth of a Greco-Roman Classicism -- 4. An Antiquarian Past for the Present. |
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| Formatted contents note | Par III Plutarch's Biographical Projects -- 17 The Lives of the Caesars -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Date -- 3. The Sources -- 4. The Parallel Tradition -- 5. The Caesars: A Different Kind of Biography? -- 6. Emphases -- 18 Plutarch's Galba and Otho -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bad Leadership and Military Misconduct in Galba's Reign -- 3. More Bad Leadership and Military Misbehavior: The Reign of Otho -- 4. Conclusion -- 19 The Aratus and the Artaxerxes -- 20 The Project of the Parallel Lives: Plutarch's Conception of Biograpghy -- 21 Kratein onomatôn: Language and Value in Plutarch -- 22 Compositional Methods in the Lives -- 1. "Compositional Methods" and Classical Hermeneutics -- 2. General Design and Architecture: Unity, Contrast, Comparison -- 3. The Biographies: Building Blocks and Structure -- 4. Manipulating Sources -- 23 The Prologues -- 1. Prologues, Books, and Lives -- 2. The Function and Structure of Prologues -- 3. The Structure of the Prologues: Examples -- 4. Variation: Naming One Subject before the Other -- 5. Alexander-Caesar and Nicias-Crassus -- 6. "Me," "Us," and "Them" -- 7. Closure -- 8. Books Without Prologues -- 24 Morality, Characterization, and Individuality -- 1. Some Theoretical Background -- 2. The Moral Purpose of the Lives -- 3. The Nature of Plutarch's Moralism -- 4. Moralism Through Characterization -- 5. Moralism and Individuality -- 6. Conclusions -- 25 Childhood and Youth -- 1. Introduction: Terms Used to Designate Children and Youths -- 2. Methodology -- 3. The Physical Portrait -- 4. The Psychological Portrait -- 5. Final Observations -- 26 Death and Other Kinds of Closure -- 1. Demosthenes-Cicero -- 2. Cimon-Lucullus -- 3. Nicias-Crassus -- 27 The Synkrisis -- 28 The Use of Historical Sources -- 1. The Parallel Lives by Plutarch: A Historiographical Project?. |
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| Formatted contents note | 2. Plutarch's Historical Sources: The Greek Lives and the Roman Lives -- 3. Plutarch's Knowledge of Latin -- 4. Plutarchan Interpretation and the Adaptation of Plutarchan Sources -- 5. Method of Selection and Use of Historical Sources -- 6. Athens and Sparta: Historiographical Choices and Historical Interpretation -- 7. Contemporary History: A Comparison of Plutarch and Tacitus -- 29 Tragedy and the Hero -- 30 The Philosopher-King -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Conflict between Philosophy and Politics -- 3. Politics: A Twofold Teaching -- 4. Philosophy: The Internal Speech -- 5. Conclusion -- 31 The Socratic Paradigm -- 1. Introduction: Socrates as the Paradigm -- 2. Socrates and the Failure of Alcibiades -- 3. Contrasting Catos and the Socratic Paradigm -- 4. The Censor -- 5. The Younger Cato -- 6. The Censor as the Intellectual Precursor of Stoicism -- 7. Women and Marriage in the Life of Cato the Younger -- 8. Conclusion -- 32 Fate and Fortune -- 33 The Perils of Ambition -- 1. The Vocabulary of Ambition: Honorific Inscriptions and Political Morality -- 2. Plutarch's Philosophical Analyses: Personal Morality and Individual Psychology -- 3. Ambition in Greek Culture: Sparta, Athens, and the Hellenistic Period -- 4. The Theme of Ambition in Roman History: The Conquest of Greece and the Civil Wars -- 5. Exemplars of Ambition: Alexander and Caesar as "Great Natures" -- 34 Sex, Eroticism, and Politics -- 1. Eroticism, Politics, and Self-Control -- 2. The Politics of Eros in the Agesilaus-Pompey -- 35 Philanthropy, Dignity, and Euergetism -- 1. Luce Clariora: Clear-Cut Distinctions and Definite Ideals -- 2. Historia Magistra Vitae: The Lives -- Panem et Circenses: The Importance of Money in Politics -- Aurea Mediocritas: Toward an Ideal Equilibrium -- 3. Conclusion -- Part IV The Reception of Plutarch. |
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| Formatted contents note | 36 The Reception of Plutarch from Antiquity to the Italian Renaissance -- 1. The Roman Empire and Early Byzantine Period -- 2. Medieval Byzantium -- 3. The Latin West -- 4. Early Humanism -- 5. Fifteenth-Century Italian Humanism and the "Plutarchan Age" -- 6. Ideology and Patronage -- 37 The Renaissance in France -- 1. The First Translations and Editions of Plutarch's Works (Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries) -- 2. Amyot's Plutarch and His Readership -- 38 The Reception of Plutarch in France after the Renaissance -- 1. From Classicism to the Enlightenment -- 2. Plutarch in the Eighteenth Century: Civic Duty, Aesthetic Sensibility, and Revolutionary Fervor -- 3. Plutarch's Fading Influence: From the Restoration to World War I -- 4. A Renewed Interest in Biography -- 39 The Reception of Plutarch in Spain -- 1. The Discovery of Plutarch in Spain -- 2. Translations of Plutarch's Works into Spanish from 1500 to 2010 -- 3. Plutarch in Spanish Universities and in Public and Private Libraries -- 4. Philological Approaches to Plutarch in Spain -- 5. Plutarch and Spanish Educational Writings -- 6. Plutarch's Presence in Emblem Collections -- 7. Plutarch's Influence on Moral and Philosophical Writings and Essays -- 8. Plutarch and Spanish Biography -- 9. Plutarch on the Spanish Stage -- 10. Plutarch's Adventures in the Spanish Novel -- 11. Plutarch and Spanish Poetry -- 40 Shakespeare -- 41 The Post-Renaissance Reception of Plutarch in England -- 42 Plutarch and the Early American Republic -- Index. |
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| Summary, etc | 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. |
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| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Philosophy, Ancient. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Plutarch -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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| Main entry heading | Beck, Mark |
| Title | A Companion to Plutarch |
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