Author: Philip A. Stadter
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9789058672391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The overall objective is to establish the context of Plutarch's work in the society and the historical circumstances for which it was written.
Sage and Emperor
Author: Philip A. Stadter
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9789058672391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The overall objective is to establish the context of Plutarch's work in the society and the historical circumstances for which it was written.
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9789058672391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The overall objective is to establish the context of Plutarch's work in the society and the historical circumstances for which it was written.
De audiendis poetis, latin
Author: Plutarch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107002044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A full treatment of this major source on ancient literary education by two of the leading scholars in the field.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107002044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A full treatment of this major source on ancient literary education by two of the leading scholars in the field.
The Ancient Aesthetics of Deception
Author: Jonas Grethlein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316518817
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
A bold new history of ancient aesthetics and its entanglement with ethics, with ongoing significance for current debates.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316518817
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
A bold new history of ancient aesthetics and its entanglement with ethics, with ongoing significance for current debates.
Ethical Education in Plutarch
Author: Sophia Xenophontos
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110383314
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
In addition to being the author of the Parallel Lives of noble Greeks and Romans, Plutarch of Chaeronea (AD c.46-c.120) is widely known for his rich ethical theory, which has ensured him a reputation as one of the most profound moralists in antiquity and beyond. Previous studies have considered Plutarch's moralism in the light of specific works or group of works, so that an exploration of his overall concept of ethical education remains a desideratum. Bringing together a wide range of texts from both the Parallel Lives and the Moralia, this study puts the moralising agents that Plutarch considers important for ethical development at the heart of its interpretation. These agents operate in different educational settings, and perform distinct moralising roles, dictated by the special features of the type of moral education they are expected to enact. Ethical education in Plutarch becomes a distinctive manifestation of paideia vis-à-vis the intellectual trends of the Imperial period, especially in contexts of cultural identity and power. By reappraising Plutarch's ethical authority and the significance of his didactic spirit, this book will appeal not only to scholars and students of Plutarch, but to anyone interested in the history of moral education and the development of Greek ethics.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110383314
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
In addition to being the author of the Parallel Lives of noble Greeks and Romans, Plutarch of Chaeronea (AD c.46-c.120) is widely known for his rich ethical theory, which has ensured him a reputation as one of the most profound moralists in antiquity and beyond. Previous studies have considered Plutarch's moralism in the light of specific works or group of works, so that an exploration of his overall concept of ethical education remains a desideratum. Bringing together a wide range of texts from both the Parallel Lives and the Moralia, this study puts the moralising agents that Plutarch considers important for ethical development at the heart of its interpretation. These agents operate in different educational settings, and perform distinct moralising roles, dictated by the special features of the type of moral education they are expected to enact. Ethical education in Plutarch becomes a distinctive manifestation of paideia vis-à-vis the intellectual trends of the Imperial period, especially in contexts of cultural identity and power. By reappraising Plutarch's ethical authority and the significance of his didactic spirit, this book will appeal not only to scholars and students of Plutarch, but to anyone interested in the history of moral education and the development of Greek ethics.
Catalogue of first editions, and books printed in the fifteenth century [&c.].
Author: Payne and Foss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
An Opaque Mirror for Trajan
Author: Laurens van der Wiel
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9462703906
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Plutarch’s Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata (Sayings of Kings and Commanders) holds a peculiar position in his oeuvre. This collection of almost 500 anecdotes of barbarian, Greek, and Roman rulers and generals is introduced by a dedicatory letter to Trajan as a summary of the author’s well-known and widely read Parallel Lives. The work is therefore Plutarch’s only text that explicitly addresses a Roman emperor and is likely to shed light on his biographical technique. Yet the collection has been understudied, because its authenticity has been generally rejected since the nineteenth century. Recent scholarship defends Plutarch's authorship of the text, but some remain sceptical. This book restores its reputation and provides a first full literary analysis of the letter and collection as a genuine work of Plutarch, wherein he attempts to educate his ruler by means of great role models of the past. Plutarch’s thinking about the function of role models (exempla) is not only relevant for Plutarchan research, but also for our knowledge of exemplarity, a key feature both in Greek and Latin literature in the early imperial period in general. Therefore An Opaque Mirror for Trajan is also of interest for literary and historical scholars who study the broader context of ancient literature of the first centuries CE.
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9462703906
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Plutarch’s Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata (Sayings of Kings and Commanders) holds a peculiar position in his oeuvre. This collection of almost 500 anecdotes of barbarian, Greek, and Roman rulers and generals is introduced by a dedicatory letter to Trajan as a summary of the author’s well-known and widely read Parallel Lives. The work is therefore Plutarch’s only text that explicitly addresses a Roman emperor and is likely to shed light on his biographical technique. Yet the collection has been understudied, because its authenticity has been generally rejected since the nineteenth century. Recent scholarship defends Plutarch's authorship of the text, but some remain sceptical. This book restores its reputation and provides a first full literary analysis of the letter and collection as a genuine work of Plutarch, wherein he attempts to educate his ruler by means of great role models of the past. Plutarch’s thinking about the function of role models (exempla) is not only relevant for Plutarchan research, but also for our knowledge of exemplarity, a key feature both in Greek and Latin literature in the early imperial period in general. Therefore An Opaque Mirror for Trajan is also of interest for literary and historical scholars who study the broader context of ancient literature of the first centuries CE.
Ancient Literary Criticism
Author: Andrew Laird
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191514578
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The volume makes widely available some important scholarship on the canonical texts of ancient rhetoric and poetics. Whilst there are numerous studies of general trends in classical criticism, this collection offers direct discussions of primary sources, which provide a useful companion to the Russell and Winterbottom anthology, Ancient Literary Criticism. The volume contains a chronology, suggestions for further reading, a new translation of Bernays' 1857 essay on katharsis, and an important introductory chapter addressing the tension in ancient literary criticism between its place in the classical tradition and its role in contemporary endeavours to reconstruct ancient culture.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191514578
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The volume makes widely available some important scholarship on the canonical texts of ancient rhetoric and poetics. Whilst there are numerous studies of general trends in classical criticism, this collection offers direct discussions of primary sources, which provide a useful companion to the Russell and Winterbottom anthology, Ancient Literary Criticism. The volume contains a chronology, suggestions for further reading, a new translation of Bernays' 1857 essay on katharsis, and an important introductory chapter addressing the tension in ancient literary criticism between its place in the classical tradition and its role in contemporary endeavours to reconstruct ancient culture.
A Catalogue of Books, Including the Libraries of the Rev. Francis Blackburne, ... the Rev. Richard Ward, ... and Several Other Collections: ... Which are Now Selling, 1789 ... by Thomas and John Egerton, ...
Author: Thomas and John Egerton (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004404473
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
The title of this volume A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic. Essays in honour of Aurelio Pérez Jiménez is first and foremost a coalescing homage to Plutarch and to Aurelio, and to the way they have been inspiring (as master and indirect disciple) a multitude of readers in their path to knowledge, here metonymically represented by the scholars who offer their tribute to them. The analysis developed throughout the several contributions favors a philological approach of wide spectrum, i.e., stemming from literary and linguistic aspects, it projects them into their cultural, religious, philosophical, and historical framework. The works were organized into two broad sections, respectively devoted to the Lives and to the Moralia.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004404473
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
The title of this volume A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic. Essays in honour of Aurelio Pérez Jiménez is first and foremost a coalescing homage to Plutarch and to Aurelio, and to the way they have been inspiring (as master and indirect disciple) a multitude of readers in their path to knowledge, here metonymically represented by the scholars who offer their tribute to them. The analysis developed throughout the several contributions favors a philological approach of wide spectrum, i.e., stemming from literary and linguistic aspects, it projects them into their cultural, religious, philosophical, and historical framework. The works were organized into two broad sections, respectively devoted to the Lives and to the Moralia.
Hugo Grotius - Meletius, Sive de IIS Quae Inter Christianos Conveniunt Epistola
Author: G.H.M. Posthumus Meyjes
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004473637
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004473637
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description