The Unity of Plutarch's Work: 'Moralia' Themes in the 'Lives', Features of the 'Lives' in the 'Moralia'

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2008

The Unity of Plutarch's Work

'Moralia' Themes in the 'Lives', Features of the 'Lives' in the 'Moralia'

Edited by: Anastasios Nikolaidis

Volume 19 in the series Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211665

About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Anastasios G. Nikolaidis, University of Crete, Greece.

Reviews

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

Topics

Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Contents Open Access Download PDF	VII
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	XIII
1. The Formation of Plutarch’s Corpus
Synopsis Open Access Download PDF	3
Lives and Moralia: How Were Put Asunder. What Plutarch Hath Joined Together Joseph Geiger Open Access Download PDF	5
2. Plutarch’s Methods of Work
Synopsis Open Access Download PDF	15
2a: How Plutarch deals with other genres
On the Problematic Classification of Some Rhetorical Elements in Plutarch José Antonio Fernández Delgado Open Access Download PDF	23
La reutilización de citas de epigramas: una manifestación del diálogo intratextual en el corpus plutarqueo Francisca Pordomingo Pardo Open Access Download PDF	33
Notes and Anecdotes: Observations on Cross-Genre Apophthegmata Philip A. Stadter Open Access Download PDF	53
The Moral Interplay. Between Plutarch’s Political Precepts and Life of Demosthenes Craig Cooper Open Access Download PDF	67
Grecs, Macédoniens et Romains au « test » d’Homère. Référence homérique et hellénisme chez Plutarque Christophe Bréchet Open Access Download PDF	85
Moralia in the Lives: Tragedy and Theatrical Imagery in Plutarch’s Pompey Diotima Papadi Open Access Download PDF	111
Scholarship and Morality: Plutarch’s Use of Inscriptions Peter Liddel Open Access Download PDF	125
2b: Other authorial techniques
Plutarch’s Habits of Citation: Aspects of Difference Ewen Bowie Open Access Download PDF	143
Why Does Plutarch’s Apollo Have Many Faces? Bernard Boulet Open Access Download PDF	159
Plutarch’s Quaestiones Romanae and his Lives of Early Romans Simon Verdegem Open Access Download PDF	171
How Lives Begin Timothy E. Duff Open Access Download PDF	187
Plutarco compositor de Vitae y Moralia: análisis intratextual Ana Vicente Sánchez Open Access Download PDF	209
Plutarch’s Heroes in the Moralia: a Matter of Variatio or Another (More Genuine) Outlook? Anastasios G. Nikolaidis Open Access Download PDF	219
3. Moralia in Vitis
Synopsis Open Access Download PDF	235
Setting a Good Exemplum. Case Studies in the Moralia, the Lives as Case Studies Frederick E. Brenk Open Access Download PDF	237
Sempre in bilico tra vizi e virtù Jolanda Capriglione Open Access Download PDF	255
Moralia in the Lives: The Charge of Rashness in Pelopidas/Marcellus Heinz Gerd Ingenkamp Open Access Download PDF	263
Is Plutarch’s Nicias Devout, Superstitious, or Both? Frances B. Titchener Open Access Download PDF	277
Self-esteem and Image-building. On Anger in De cohibenda ira and in Some Lives Luc Van der Stockt Open Access Download PDF	285
Genres and Their Implications: Meddlesomeness in On Curiosity versus the Lives Lieve Van Hoof Open Access Download PDF	297
4. Plutarch and Politics
Synopsis Open Access Download PDF	313
The Ideal Statesman: A Commonplace in Plutarch’s Political Treatises, His Solon, and His Lycurgus Lukas de Blois Open Access Download PDF	317
Two Roads to Politics. Plutarch on the Statesman’s Entry in Political Life Geert Roskam Open Access Download PDF	325
The Education of Rulers in Theory (Mor.) and Practice (Vitae) Sven-Tage Teodorsson Open Access Download PDF	339
Dion and Brutus: Philosopher Kings Adrift in a Hostile World John Dillon Open Access Download PDF	351
Eunoia bei Plutarch: von den Praecepta Gerendae Reipublicae zu den Viten Evangelos Alexiou Open Access Download PDF	365
Struggling with the Plêthos: Politics and Military Leadership in Plutarch’s Life of Lucullus Manuel Tröster Open Access Download PDF	387
Greek Lawgivers in Plutarch: A comparison Between the Biographical Lycurgus and the Rhetorical Alexander Elias Koulakiotis Open Access Download PDF	403
5. Plutarch and Philosophy
Synopsis Open Access Download PDF	425
Plutarch’s Life of Lycurgus and the Philosophical Use of Discourse Benoît Castelnérac Open Access Download PDF	429
Boethus and Cassius: Two Epicureans in Plutarch Patricia M. FitzGibbon Open Access Download PDF	445
« 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 Open Access Download PDF	461
Plutarch and the Character of the Sapiens Delfim F. Leão Open Access Download PDF	481
Plutarch on Solon and Sophia Jackson P. Hershbell Open Access Download PDF	489
El Banquete de los Siete Sabios y la Vida de Solón de Plutarco : mito político y contexto literario José Vela Tejada Open Access Download PDF	501
Las Vidas frente a los Moralia en las alusiones plutarqueas sobre Solón Inés Calero Secall Open Access Download PDF	515
6. Literary Aspects of Plutarch’s OEuvre
Synopsis Open Access Download PDF	535
Parallel Narratives: the Liberation of Thebes in De Genio Socratis and in Pelopidas Christopher Pelling Open Access Download PDF	539
Standing in the Shadows: Plutarch and the Emperors in the Lives and Moralia Rhiannon Ash Open Access Download PDF	557
Plutarque et la scène du banquet Alain Billault Open Access Download PDF	577
El trofeo de Maratón: Adaptación y desarrollo de un tópico ético en Plutarco Aurelio Pérez Jiménez Open Access Download PDF	591
Recursos humorísticos en la obra de Plutarco Vicente Ramón Palerm Open Access Download PDF	601
Some Notes on Grammarians in Plutarch Marietta Horster Open Access Download PDF	611
La dinastía de los Ptolomeos en Plutarco: etopeya de los personajes Mónica Durán Mañas Open Access Download PDF	625
Plutarco y la elegía helenística Rafael J. Gallé Cejudo Open Access Download PDF	637
Plutarch and the Music Roosevelt Araújo Da Rocha Júnior Open Access Download PDF	651
7. Women, Eros, Marriage, and Parenthood in Plutarch
Synopsis Open Access Download PDF	659
Donne, cultura e società nelle Vite Parallele di Plutarco Gabriele Marasco Open Access Download PDF	663
El prototipo de mujer espartana en Plutarco Dámaris Romero González Open Access Download PDF	679
Plutarch on the Role of Eros in a Marriage Jeffrey Beneker Open Access Download PDF	689
Integrating Marriage and Homonoia Georgia Tsouvala Open Access Download PDF	701
Parent-Child Affection and Social Relationships in Plutarch: Common Elements in Consolatio ad uxorem and Vitae Carmen Soares Open Access Download PDF	719
8. Plutarch in his Epistemological and Socio-Historical Context
Synopsis Open Access Download PDF	731
Les digressions scientifiques dans les Vies de Plutarque Jacques Boulogne Open Access Download PDF	733
Pharmakon en Plutarco Rosa Ma Aguilar Open Access Download PDF	751
Deformity (anapêria): Plutarch’s Views of Reproduction and Imperfect Generation in the Moralia and Lives Zlatko Plese Open Access Download PDF	773
Due testi a confronto: De Iside 352F–353E – Quaestio convivalis VIII, 8 728C– 730F. Paola Volpe Cacciatore Open Access Download PDF	785
Plutarch in Crete George W. M. Harrison and Jane Francis Open Access Download PDF	791
Plutarco (Cim. 13, 4) y las islas Quelidonias Carlos Schrader Open Access Download PDF	805
El judaísmo en las Vitae y Moralia de Plutarco Israel Muñoz Gallarte Open Access Download PDF	815
Backmatter Open Access Download PDF	831

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 18
- Main content: 851
Keywords: Plutarch

eBook

Published: December 10, 2008
ISBN: 9783110211665

Hardcover

Published: September 16, 2008
ISBN: 9783110202496