Plutarch's Practical Ethics: Plutarch's practical ethics. On feeling good ; On exile ; On talkativeness ; On curiosity ; Precepts of health care
Plutarch's Practical Ethics: Plutarch's practical ethics. On feeling good ; On exile ; On talkativeness ; On curiosity ; Precepts of health care

Author: Lieve Van Hoof

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780191723131

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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.

Plutarch's Practical Ethics
Plutarch's Practical Ethics

Author: Lieve Van Hoof

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2010-06-24

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0191576905

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The Second Sophistic (c.AD 60-250) was a time of intense competition for honour and status. Like today, this often caused mental as well as physical stress for the elite of the Roman Empire. This book, which transcends the boundaries between literature, social history, and philosophy, studies Plutarch's practical ethics, a group of twenty-odd texts within the Moralia designed to help powerful Greeks and Romans manage their ambitions and society's expectations successfully. Lieve Van Hoof combines a systematic analysis of the general principles underlying Plutarch's practical ethics, including the author's target readership, therapeutical practices, and self-presentation, with five innovative case studies. A picture emerges of philosophy under the Roman Empire not as a set of abstract, theoretical doctrines, but as a kind of symbolic capital engendering power and prestige for author and reader alike.

Plutarch's Practical Ethics
Plutarch's Practical Ethics

Author: Lieve Van Hoof

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-06-24

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 0199583269

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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.

Virtues for the People
Virtues for the People

Author: Geert Roskam

Publisher: Universitaire Pers Leuven

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 905867858X

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This collection of essays addresses Plutarch's writings on practical ethics from different perspectives, including regarding their overall structure, content, purpose, and underlying philosophical and social presuppositions.

The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic
The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic

Author: Daniel S. Richter

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 777

ISBN-13: 0199837473

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The study of the Second Sophistic is a relative newcomer to the Anglophone field of classics, and much of what characterizes it temporally and culturally remains a matter of legitimate contestation. This Handbook offers a diversity of scholarly voices that attempt to define the state of this developing field. Included are chapters that offer practical guidance on the wide range of valuable textual materials that survive, many of which are useful or even core to inquiries of particularly current interest (e.g., gender studies, cultural history of the body, sociology of literary culture, history of education and intellectualism, history of religion, political theory, history of medicine, cultural linguistics, intersection of the classical traditions and early Christianity).

A Companion to Plutarch
A Companion to Plutarch

Author: Mark Beck

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-11-13

Total Pages: 838

ISBN-13: 1118316371

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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

A Companion to Plutarch
A Companion to Plutarch

Author: Mark Beck

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-01-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781405194310

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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

Plutarch’s Pragmatic Biographies
Plutarch’s Pragmatic Biographies

Author: Susan G. Jacobs

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 487

ISBN-13: 9004276610

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In Plutarch’s Pragmatic Biographies, Susan Jacobs argues for a major revision in how we interpret the Parallel Lives. She integrates the existing focus on moral issues into the much broader paradigm of effective leadership found in Plutarch’s Moralia. There, in addition to moral virtue, the successful leader needed good critical judgment, persuasiveness and facility in managing alliances and rivalries. The analysis of six sets of Lives shows how Plutarch carefully portrayed Greek and Roman leaders of the past assessing situations and solving problems that paralleled those faced by his politically-active audience. By linking victories and defeats to specific strategic insights and practical skills, Plutarch created “pragmatic biographies” that could instruct statesmen and generals of every era.

How to Be a Leader
How to Be a Leader

Author: Plutarch

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2019-11-05

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 0691192111

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Classicist Beneker translates three political essays written by the philosopher, statesman, and moralist Plutarch of Chaeronia. These essays are timeless reflections on the proper way to lead and serve, publicly, at least with respect to the European and American political traditions.

Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind
Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind

Author: Max J. Lee

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2020-04-15

Total Pages: 694

ISBN-13: 3161496604

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"Max J. Lee examines the philosophies of Platonism and Stoicism during the Greco-Roman era and their rivals including Diaspora Judaism and Pauline Christianity on how to transform a person's character from vice to virtue. He describes each philosophical school's respective teachings on diverse moral topoi such as emotional control, ethical action and habit, character formation, training, mentorship, and deity." --provided by publisher