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Author: Plutarch
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-09-25
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 3387085176
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Author: Plutarch
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1993-04-06
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780140445640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelections from one of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world Plutarch used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb selection from his writings, he offers personal insights into moral subjects that include the virtue of listening, the danger of flattery and the avoidance of anger, alongside more speculative essays on themes as diverse as God's slowness to punish man, the use of reason by supposedly "irrational" animals and the death of his own daughter. Brilliantly informed, these essays offer a treasure-trove of ancient wisdom, myth and philosophy, and a powerful insight into a deeply intelligent man. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: Plutarch
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2010-09-02
Total Pages: 893
ISBN-13: 0141959738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together nine biographies from Plutarch's Parallel Lives series, this edition examines the lives of major figures in Roman history, from Lucullus (118-57 BC), an aristocratic politician and conqueror of Eastern kingdoms, to Otho (32-69 AD), a reckless young noble who consorted with the tyrannical, debauched emperor Nero before briefly becoming a dignified and gracious emperor himself. Ian Scott-Kilvert's and Christopher Pelling's translations are accompanied by a new introduction, and also includes a separate introduction for each biography, comparative essays of the major figures, suggested further reading, notes and maps.
Author: John L. Moles
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 856
ISBN-13: 9004538720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains the collected papers of one of the most important and influential scholars of the late 20th/early 21st century, with fundamental contributions to the fields of Cynic philosophy, Greco-Roman historiography and biography, and Roman poetry. This is volume 2.
Author: Michiel Meeusen
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2015-11-17
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9462700435
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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 marvels. 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. Moreover, 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.
Author: Paola Volpe Cacciatore
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-09-20
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9004448462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilology, philosophy, commentary and reception in Plutarch's work are only some of the main topics discussed within a large academic output devoted to the writer of Chaeronea by Professor Paola Volpe Cacciatore. The volume is divided into four sections: Plutarchean Fragments, Quaestiones convivales, Religion & Philosophy, and Plutarch's Reception from Humanism to Modern Times. The eighteen studies collected in this volume, originally published in Italian and here translated into English, concern the Corpus Plutarcheum, including Table-Talks, De Iside et Osiride, the treatises against the Stoics, De genio Socratis, De liberis educandis, De musica, and some Plutarchean fragments. The volume is a tribute to celebrate the lifelong study of Plutarch's work by Professor Paola Volpe Cacciatore, one of the most remarkable Plutarchean scholars of the last decades.
Author: Hans Dieter Betz
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-04-12
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9004672338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jeroen Bons
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-07-31
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9047413822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents the first half of the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the International Plutarch Society (2002). The selected papers are divided by theme in sections concentrating on political, philosophical, and literary aspects of Plutarch's presentation of statesmen and their activities, and on the aftermath of this Plutarchan heritage. The volume bears witness to the ongoing, wide-ranging interest in the work of Plutarch.
Author: Christopher Bryan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0195130235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBryan approaches St. Paul's letter to the Romans with a number of aims in view. First, he wants to show which literary type or genre would have been seen by Paul's contemporaries as being exemplified in the letter. He also attempts to determine what we can surmise of Paul's attitude and approach to the Jewish bible. The study involves discussion of and comparison with other literature from Paul's time, place and milieu --- including other writings attributed to Paul.
