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Van Hoof, Lieve

Plutarch's Practical Ethics: The Social Dynamics of Philosophy

Link: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Philosophy/History/Ancient/?view=usa&ci=9780199583263

A study of Plutarch's practical ethics, a group of texts within his Moralia designed to help powerful Greeks and Romans manage their ambitions and society's expectations successfully. Lieve Van Hoof depicts philosophy under the Roman Empire as a kind of symbolic capital engendering power and prestige for author and reader alike.

360 pages; 8.5 x 5.4;
ISBN13: 978-0-19-958326-3
ISBN10: 0-19-958326-9
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Fernandes Grizoste, Weberson

A dimensão anti-épica de Virgílio e o indianismo de Gonçalves Dias

(Coimbra, Classica Digitalia /CECH, 2011). 209 p.

Link: https://bdigital.sib.uc.pt/jspui/handle/123456789/70

Printed copy: 15 €

Guimarães, Joana

Suícidio Mítico – Uma luz sobre a Antiguidade Clássica

(Coimbra, Classica Digitalia /CECH, 2011). 215 p.

Link: https://bdigital.sib.uc.pt/jspui/handle/123456789/71

Printed copy: 18 €

Geert Roskam, Luc Van der Stockt (eds)

Virtues for the People
Aspects of Plutarchan Ethics

http://upers.kuleuven.be/en/titel/9789058678584

Plutarch of Chaeronea believed in the necessity for a philosopher to affect the lives of his fellow citizens. That urge inspired many of his writings to meet what he considered people's true needs. Although these writings on practical ethics illustrate in various ways Plutarch's authorial talents and raise many challenging questions (regarding their overall structure, content, purpose, and underlying philosophical and social presuppositions), they have attracted only limited scholarly attention.

Virtues for the People contains a collection of essays that deal with these questions from different perspectives and as such throw a new light upon this multifaceted domain of Plutarch's thinking and writing.

€ 64,95
ISBN 978 90 5867 858 4
hardback, 384 p.
May 2011
English
Series: Plutarchea Hypomnemata 4

Evangelos Alexiou

The Parallel Lives of Plutarch. The Issue of 'Positive' and 'Negative' Examples

University Studio Press, Thessaloniki 2007 (p. 348).

ISBN 978-960-12-1572-3
Das Buch behandelt die Frage, inwiefern die häufig in der Forschung Abgrenzung der Biographien Plutarchs nach positiven und negativen Beispiele in der Praxis gerechtfertigt ist. Aus der näheren Untersuchung der Syzygien Kimon-Lucullus, Pelopidas-Marcellus, Themistokles-Camillus, Lysander-Sulla, Perikles-Fabius Maximus, Dion-Brutus und Demetrios-Antonius ergibt sich, daß die Idee Plutarchs, negative Viten zu verfassen, eine ad hoc-Entscheidung im späteren Verlauf des Projektes war, die nicht in die Anfänge von seiner biographischer Schriftestellerei zurückprojiziert werden darf. Das erklärt, warum Biographien, wie Lysander-Sulla, die früher verfaßt worden waren und nach den Kriterien des Proömiums der Demetrios-Antonius durchaus die Bezeichnung ‚negativ‘ verdient hätten, nicht als solche von Plutarch bezeichnet wurden.


C. Leeck

Das Bild Roms in Plutarchs Römerbiographien. Schmeichelei oder ernsthafte Völkerverständigung?

Marburg 2010 (Wissenschaftliche Beiträge aus dem Tectum Verlag: Geschichtswissenschaft, Band 8).

http://www.tectum-verlag.de/2320_Christian_Leeck_Das_Bild_Roms_in_Plutarchs_R%F6merbiographien_Schmeichelei_oder_ernsthafte_V%F6lkerverst%E4ndigung.html

 

  

Frieda Klotz and Katerina Oikonomopoulou (eds.),

The Philosopher's Banquet: Plutarch's Table Talk in the Intellectual Culture of the Roman Empire
forthcoming June 2011 from Oxford University Press

Publication information: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199588954.do

The Philosopher's Banquet is the first sustained study of Plutarch's Table Talk, a Greek prose text which is a combination of philosophical dialogue (in the style of Plato's Symposium) and miscellany. The form of Table Talkwas imitated by several later Greek and Roman imperial authors (such as Aulus Gellius, Athenaeus, and Macrobius), making it a vital part of the early Roman Empire's literary and cultural history. Similarly, the great variety of its contents links it with a broader imperial cultural trend, that of systematizing knowledge, which features increasingly prominently as a subject of scholarly study in both classics and the history of science. The contributors to The Philosopher's Banquet offer a range of methodologically innovative and sophisticated readings of Table Talk's literary form, themes, cultural background, and influence.

Table of Contents

Introduction

I. Traditions

1: Frances B. Titchener: Plutarch's Table Talk: Sampling a Rich Blend. A Survey of Scholarly Appraisal
2: Teresa Morgan: The Miscellany and Plutarch

II. Topics and Themes

3: Eleni Kechagia: Philosophy in Plutarch's Table Talk: In Jest or in Earnest?
4: Katerina Oikonomopoulou: Peripatetic Knowledge in Plutarch's Table Talk
5: Maria Vamvouri Ruffy: Symposium, Physical and Social Health in Plutarch's Table Talk

III. Voice and Authority

6: Frieda Klotz: Imagining the Past: Plutarch's Play with Time
7: Jason König: Self-Promotion and Self-Effacement in Plutarch's Table Talk

IV. Contradictions

 8: Christopher Pelling: Putting the -viv- into Convivial: The Table Talk and the Lives

Conclusion

I. Classical Authors in translation – Greek Texts

II. Studies


 Dear friends and colleagues,

The Classica Digitalia have the pleasure of presenting 3 new volumes.
According to our policy, the eLibrary is available in open access. Below I provide the direct link to each eBook, as well as the price, for those who may perhaps be interested in buying a printed copy.

With my best regards,


Delfim Leão
(Technical Director of the Classica Digitalia)

Noreen Humble (ed.)

Plutarch’s Lives: parallelism and purpose

Forthcoming 2010 from Classical Press of Wales

Plutarch’s Parallel Lives compare famous Greeks and Romans. This is the most obvious aspect of their parallelism, though it is frequently ignored in the search to mine Plutarch for historical fact. The eleven contributors to this volume, however, bring out many other ways in which Plutarch invoked aspects of parallelism. They show how all pervasive and how central the whole notion was to his thinking. From new thoughts about the nature of the synkriseis, to the discussion of parallels within and across the Lives and with essays from the Moralia, to an examination of why
the basic parallel structure of the Lives lost its importance in the Renaissance, this volume
presents fresh ideas on a topic more central than we might have thought to Plutarch’s literary
creation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 1. Why Parallel Lives?
W. Jeffrey Tatum (Victoria University, Wellington)

2. Parallels and contrasts: Plutarch’s Comparison of Coriolanus and Alcibiades
Simon Verdegem (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

3. Plutarch’s Themistocles and Camillus
Timothy E. Duff (University of Reading)

4. Dion and Brutus: philosopher kings adrift in a hostile world
John Dillon (Trinity College, Dublin)

5. Asêmotatos or autokratôr? Obscurity and glory in Plutarch’s Sertorius
Jeffrey Beneker (University of Wisconsin)

6. Plutarch, ‘parallelism’ and the Persian-War Lives
John Marincola (Florida State University)

7. A life unparalled: Artaxerxes
Judith Mossman (University of Nottingham)

8. The rhetoric and philosophy of Plutarch’s mirrors
Alexei V. Zadorojnyi (University of Liverpool)

9. Parallels in three dimensions
Philip A. Stadter (University of North Carolina)

10. Plutarch’s tale of two cities: do the Parallel Lives combine as global histories?
Christopher Pelling (University of Oxford)

11. Parallelism and the Humanists
Noreen Humble (University of Calgary)

Simon Verdegem

Plutarch’s Life of Alcibiades Story, Text and Moralism

- ISBN 978 90 5867 760 0
- Hardback, 499 p.
- Price: € 69,50
- Published: January 2010, Leuven University Press

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.

Contact: Els.VanDePerre@upers.kuleuven.be

José Ribeiro Ferreira, Delfim Leão, Manuel Tröster & Paula Barata Dias (eds)

Symposion and Philantropia in Plutarch

Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos da Universidade de Coimbra, 2009

ISBN: 978 989 8281 17 3

 

 

 

 

 

"The first, second and third volume of G. N. Bernardakis´ up to now unpublished editio maior of Plutarch´s Moralia have now been published by the Academy of Athens. You or your bookseller may order Volume I (ISBN 978-960-404-128-2), II (ISBN 978-960-404-142-8) and III (ISBN 978-960-404-193-0) for the price of Euro 50.-, Euro 55.- and Euro 60.- respectively, at the following three bookstores in Greece:

"MIET", 13 Amerikis, GR-10672 Athens
Email: bookstore-amerikis@miet.gr

"Estia", 60 Solonos Street, GR-10672 Athens
Email: info@estiabookstore.gr and sales@estiabookstore.gr)

"Eleftheroudakis", 17 Panepistimiou, GR-10564 Athens

(see also the website: www.bernardakis.de).

 

 

Anastasios G. Nikolaidis (ed.)

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

Walter de Gruyter - Berlin - New York, 2008

ISBN: 978-3-11-020249-6

 

 

 

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