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An Opaque Mirror For Trajan - A Literary Analysis And Interpretation Of Plutarch'S 'Regum Et Imperatorum Apophthegmata'

by Laurens Van Der Wiel

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 The first full in-depth analysis and interpretation of Plutarchâ€™s Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata in its entirety as a literary piece of art.
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Plutarch'S Cosmological Ethics

by Bram Demulder

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 A groundbreaking and wide-ranging presentation of Plutarch's ethics based on the cosmological foundation of his ethical thought
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Plutarch'S Life Of Alcibiades - Story, Text And Moralism

by Simon Verdegem

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 At the beginning of the second century AD, Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on important ethical issues and to use the example of these great men from the past to improve his or her own conduct. This book offers the first full-scale commentary on the Life of Alcibiades. It examines how Plutarch’s biography of one of classical Athens’ most controversial politicians functions within the moral programme of the Parallel Lives. Built upon the narratological distinction between story and text, Verdegem’s analysis, which involves detailed comparisons with other Plutarchan works (esp. the Lives of Nicias and Lysander) and several key texts in the Alcibiades tradition (e.g., Plato, Thucydides, Xenophon), demonstrates how Plutarch carefully constructed his story and used a wide range of narrative techniques to create a complex Life that raises interesting questions about the relation between private morality and the common good.
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Plutarch'S Maxime Cum Principibus Philosopho Esse Disserendum - An Interpretation With Commentary

by Geert Roskam

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 In this short political work, Plutarch demonstrates that the philosopher should especially associate with powerful rulers in order to exert the greatest positive influence on his society and at the same time maximize his personal pleasure.
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Commentary On Plutarch'S De Latenter Vivendo

by Geert Roskam

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 Plutarch''s De latenter vivendo is the only extant work from Antiquity in which Epicurus'' famous ideal of an ''unnoticed life'' (lathe biosas) is thematised as such. Moreover, the short rhetorical work provides a lot of interesting information about Plutarch''s polemical strategies and about his own philosophical convictions in the domains of ethics, politics, metaphysics, and eschatology. In this book, Plutarch''s anti-Epicurean polemic is understood against the background of the previous philosophical tradition. An examination of Epicurus'' own position is followed by a discussion of Plutarch''s polemical predecessors (Timocrates, Cicero, the early Stoics, and Seneca) and contemporaries (Epictetus), and by a systematical and detailed analysis of Plutarch''s own arguments. The lemmatic commentary offers additional information and parallel passages (both from Plutarch''s own works and from others authors) that cast a new light on the text.
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Natural Spectaculars - Aspects Of Plutarch’S Philosophy Of Nature

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 The value of Plutarch’s perception of physical reality and his attitude towards the natural spectacle. Plutarch was very interested in the natural world around him, not only in terms of its elementary composition and physical processes, but also with respect to its providential ordering and ‘wonders’. His writings teach us a lot about his perception of physical reality and about his attitude to the natural spectacle. He found his greatest inspiration in the ontological and epistemological framework of Plato’s Timaeus, but a wide range of other authors were also of seminal interest to his project. Clearly, the highly literary value of Plutarch’s natural philosophical writings should not be underrated. It is therefore not surprising that recently scholars have started to reassess the ancient scientific value of Plutarch’s natural philosophical writings. Natural Spectaculars aims to give further impetus to this dynamic by treating several aspects of Plutarch’s natural philosophy which have remained unexplored up to now. <br><br>This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).<br><br>Contributors: Jan Opsomer (KU Leuven), Suzan Sierksma-Agteres (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Angelo Casanova (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Paola Volpe Cacciatore (Università degli Studi di Salerno), Aldo Setaioli (Università degli Studi di Perugia), Fabio Tanga (Università degli Studi di Salerno), Michiel Meeusen (KU Leuven), Luisa Lesage Gárriga (Universidad de Málaga), Ana Ferreira (Universidade do Porto), Israel Muñoz Gallarte (Universidad de Córdoba), Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Bram Demulder (KU Leuven), Aurelio Pérez Jiménez (Universidad de Málaga), Delfim Ferreira Leão (Universidade de Coimbra)
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Versatile Gentleman - Consistency In Plutarch''S Writing

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 A Versatile Gentleman aims to do justice to Plutarch's versatility by discussing the Chaeronean from many different angles. As such, it sheds new light on the coherence of, and the tensions in, Plutarch's thinking and writing.
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Plutarch'S Science Of Natural Problems - A Study With Commentary On Quaestiones Naturales

by Meeusen Michiel Meeusen

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 By providing a thorough study of and commentary on this generally neglected text, written by one of the most influential and prolific writers from Antiquity, this book contributes to our better understanding of Plutarch's natural scientific programme and, the condition and role of ancient natural science in the Roman Imperial Era in general.
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Perfect Medium? - Oracular Divination In The Thought Of Plutarch

by Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

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 An in-depth analysis of oracular divination in Plutarch's thought
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Art History After Deleuze And Guattari

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 In 'Art History after Deleuze and Guattari' international scholars explore what a `Deleuzo-Guattarian art history' could be today.
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Cold War Triangle - How Scientists In East And West Tamed Hiv

by Renilde Loeckx

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 The extraordinary story of scientists in East and West combatting HIV
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Cultural Mediation In Europe, 1800-1950

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 'Cultural Mediation in Europe, 1800-1950' analyses the strategic transfer roles of cultural mediators active in large parts of Western Europe in domains as varied as literature, music, painting, or art design.
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A Perfect Medium?

by Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

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 An in-depth analysis of oracular divination in Plutarch's thought
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Plutarch'S Science Of Natural Problems - A Study With Commentary On "Quaestiones Naturales"

by Michiel Meeusen

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 By providing a thorough study of and commentary on this generally neglected text, written by one of the most influential and prolific writers from Antiquity, this book contributes to our better understanding of Plutarch's natural scientific programme and, the condition and role of ancient natural science in the Roman Imperial Era in general.
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A Versatile Gentleman - Consistency In Plutarch'S Writing

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 A Versatile Gentleman aims to do justice to Plutarch's versatility by discussing the Chaeronean from many different angles. As such, it sheds new light on the coherence of, and the tensions in, Plutarch's thinking and writing.
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Coping With Social Change - Life Strategies Of Workers In Poland'S New Capitalism

by Adam Mrozowicki

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 Coping with Social Change is essential not only for readers interested in postsocialism and working-class theory, but also for anybody inclined to think critically about workers' empowerment in late capitalist societies.
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L'Adversus Colotem Di Plutarco - Storia Di Una Polemica Filosofica

by Aurora Corti

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Plutarch And Rhetoric - The Relationship Of Rhetoric To Ethics, Politics And Education In The First And Second Centuries Ad

by Theofanis Tsiampokalos

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Virtues For The People - Aspects Of Plutarchan Ethics

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Plutarch'S Life Of Alcibiades - Story, Text And Moralism

by Simon Verdegem

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Plutarch'S "Maxime Cum Principibus Philosopho Esse Disserendum" - An Interpretation With Commentary

by Geert Roskam

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 In this short political work, Plutarch demonstrates that the philosopher should especially associate with powerful rulers in order to exert the greatest positive influence on his society and at the same time maximize his personal pleasure.
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A Commentary On Plutarch'S - De Latenter Vivendo

by Geert Roskam

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