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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822770603321

Autore

Brenk Frederick E.

Titolo

Frederick Brenk on Plutarch, religious thinker and biographer [[e-book] ] : "The religious spirit of Plutarch of Chaironeia" and "The Life of Mark Antony" / / edited by Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, with the collaboration of Luisa Lesage

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

90-04-34877-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 pages)

Collana

Brill's Plutarch Studies, ; ; Volume 1

Disciplina

888/.01

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- Introduction to Frederick E. Brenk on Plutarch, Religious Thinker and Biographer / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta and Delfim F. Leão -- Introduction / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- Life / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- The Development of Plutarch’s Religious Ideas, and His Religious Works / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- Plutarch’s Idea of God in the Light of Alexandrian Middle Platonism / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- Plutarch’s Daimonology / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- De Iside et Osiride: Allegorical Interpretation and Syncretism / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- Plutarch and the Stoics / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- Religion in the Lives: Daimon and Tyche / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- Omens and Portents / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- Dreams / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- Divine Retribution / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- Delphi / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- The Mythological Lives and Roman Religion / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- The Neronian Background to the Life / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- Antonius and Demetrios / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- Narrative / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- Some Aspects of Style / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- Bibliography / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- Indexes / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta.

Sommario/riassunto

The present book Frederick E. Brenk: Plutarch, Religious Thinker and Biographer, “The Religious Spirit of Plutarch of Chaironeia” and “The



Life of Mark Antony” includes the updated and revised version of two seminal articles on Plutarch by F. E. Brenk published thirty years ago in ANRW. Edited by Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, both articles cover the two sides of Plutarch’s corpus, the Lives and Moralia .