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Characters [[electronic resource] /] / Theophrastus ; edited with introduction, translation and commentary by James Diggle
Characters [[electronic resource] /] / Theophrastus ; edited with introduction, translation and commentary by James Diggle
Autore Theophrastus
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2004
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (610 p.)
Disciplina 888/.0108
Altri autori (Persone) DiggleJames
Collana Cambridge classical texts and commentaries
Soggetto topico Character sketches
Greek literature
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-316-08620-8
1-280-75012-X
0-511-26539-5
0-511-26611-1
0-511-26385-6
0-511-33162-2
0-511-26468-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; TEXT AND TRANSLATION; COMMENTARY; ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEXES
Record Nr. UNINA-9910457575403321
Theophrastus  
New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2004
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Characters [[electronic resource] /] / Theophrastus ; edited with introduction, translation and commentary by James Diggle
Characters [[electronic resource] /] / Theophrastus ; edited with introduction, translation and commentary by James Diggle
Autore Theophrastus
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2004
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (610 p.)
Disciplina 888/.0108
Altri autori (Persone) DiggleJames
Collana Cambridge classical texts and commentaries
Soggetto topico Character sketches
Greek literature
ISBN 1-316-08620-8
1-280-75012-X
0-511-26539-5
0-511-26611-1
0-511-26385-6
0-511-33162-2
0-511-26468-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; TEXT AND TRANSLATION; COMMENTARY; ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEXES
Record Nr. UNINA-9910784301803321
Theophrastus  
New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2004
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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A companion to Plutarch / / edited by Mark Beck
A companion to Plutarch / / edited by Mark Beck
Edizione [1]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts ; ; Oxford, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (736 p.)
Disciplina 888/.0108
Altri autori (Persone) BeckMark <1958->
Collana Blackwell companions to the ancient world
Soggetto topico Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN 1-118-31640-1
1-118-31645-2
1-118-31623-1
1-118-31637-1
Classificazione HIS002010
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Intro -- BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Translations and Abbreviations -- Introduction: Plutarch in Greece -- 1. Plutarch's Early Life -- 2. History and Topographies of Memory -- 3. Erga and Aesthetics -- 4. Characterization, Individuality, and the Condensation of Knowledge -- 5. Plutarch in Chaeronea -- 6. The Contents and Scope of this Volume -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART I: Plutarch in Context -- CHAPTER 1: Plutarch and Rome -- 1. A Greek in a Roman World -- 2. Visiting Rome: The Immersion Experience -- 3. Roman Friends -- 4. Evaluating Emperors, Past and Present -- 5. Delphi and Rome -- 6. Plutarch's View of Rome in the Parallel Lives -- 7. Living Under Roman Rule -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 2: Plutarch and the Second Sophistic -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 3: The Role of Philosophy and Philosophers in the Imperial Period -- 1. The Scope of Philosophia -- 2. Public and Social Profile -- 3. Encountering Philosophy -- 4. A Call to Personal Commitment -- 5. Choice and Division -- 6. Professional Output and Forms of Communication -- 7. Integration and Ambivalence -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- PART II: Plutarch's Moralia -- CHAPTER 4: Plutarch and Platonism -- 1. Ethics -- 2. Physics -- 3. Logic -- 4. Conclusion -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 5: Plutarch, Aristotle, and the Peripatetics -- 1. Philosophical Paideia -- 2. The Human Soul -- 3. Reason -- 4. Passion -- 5. Morality (Ēthos) -- 6. Wisdom (Phronēsis) -- 7. Theoretical and Ethical Virtues -- 8. Virtue: The Mesotēs of the Passions -- 9. Freedom from Pain or Grief (Alypia) -- 10. Impassiveness (Apatheia) -- 11. Freedom and Responsibility -- 12. Happiness -- REFERENCES.
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 6: Plutarch and the Stoics -- 1. Theology, Providence, and Evil -- 2. Determinism and Moral Responsibility -- 3. The Soul -- 4. Moral Psychology -- 5. Polemics -- 6. Caution and the Quest for Truth -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 7: Plutarch and Epicureanism -- 1. Introduction: The Epicureans in Plutarch's Work -- 2. Epicureanism in Plutarch's World: Survival and Hostility -- 3. Plutarch's Platonism vs. Epicureanism -- 4. Plutarch against Epicurean Materialism, Empiricism, and Pleasure -- 5. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 8: Plutarch and the Skeptics -- 1. Plutarch on the Difference between the Academics and the Pyrrhonists -- 2. Plutarch and Knowledge of the Sensory World -- 3. Plutarch and Knowledge of the Intelligible and Divine World -- 4. Platonism and Skepticism -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 9: Practical Ethics -- 1. Foundational Research -- 2. The Scope of the Practical Ethics -- 3. Characteristics of Plutarch's Practical Ethics -- 4. Conclusions and Outlook -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 10: Political Philosophy -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 11: Religion and Myth -- 1. Religion -- 2. Myth -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 12: Poetry and Education -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Evidence of Quotation -- 3. How a Young Man Should Listen to Poetry -- 4. Plutarch's Principles Applied -- 5. Conclusions -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 13: Love and Marriage -- 1. Introduction and Considerations -- 2. A Philosophy of Eros: Physical, Spiritual, Conjugal, and Political Eros -- 3. The Religious, Spiritual, and Eschatological Nature of Eros.
4. Conjugal Eros: Women's Capability in Achieving Eros, and its Viability in Marriage -- 5. Political Eros: Appropriate and Inappropriate Relationships for Free Citizens (Both Male and Female) -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 14: The Sympotic Works -- 1. The Philosopher's Dinner Party: Plutarch's Table Talk -- 2. A Socratic Start -- 3. The Muses of Book 9 -- 4. Wise Men at Dinner -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 15: Animals in Plutarch -- 1. Plutarch's Writings on Animals: Characteristics and Challenges -- 2. Ancient Perceptions of Animals -- 3. Plutarch on Rationality in Animals -- 4. Plutarch on Animals: Appraisal and Survival -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 16: Plutarch the Antiquarian -- 1. What is an Antiquarian? Ancients and Moderns -- 2. Plutarch's Antiquarian Erudition -- 3. The Birth of a Greco-Roman Classicism -- 4. An Antiquarian Past for the Present -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- PART III: Plutarch's Biographical Projects -- CHAPTER 17: The Lives of the Caesars -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Date -- 3. The Sources -- 4. The Parallel Tradition -- 5. The Caesars: A Different Kind of Biography? -- 6. Emphases -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 18: Plutarch's Galba and Otho -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bad Leadership and Military Misconduct in Galba's Reign -- 3. More Bad Leadership and Military Misbehavior: The Reign of Otho -- 4. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 19: The Aratus and the Artaxerxes -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 20: The Project of the Parallel Lives: Plutarch's Conception of Biography -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 21: Kratein onomatôn: Language and Value in Plutarch -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 22: Compositional Methods in the Lives -- 1. "Compositional Methods" and Classical Hermeneutics -- 2. General Design and Architecture: Unity, Contrast, Comparison -- 3. The Biographies: Building Blocks and Structure -- 4. Manipulating Sources -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 23: The Prologues -- 1. Prologues, Books, and Lives -- 2. The Function and Structure of Prologues -- 3. The Structure of the Prologues: Examples -- 4. Variation: Naming One Subject before the Other -- 5. Alexander-Caesar and Nicias-Crassus -- 6. "Me," "Us," and "Them" -- 7. Closure -- 8. Books Without Prologues -- APPENDIX: THE CONSTITUENT PARTS OF A BOOK OF PARALLEL LIVES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 24: Morality, Characterization, and Individuality -- 1. Some Theoretical Background -- 2. The Moral Purpose of the Lives -- 3. The Nature of Plutarch's Moralism -- 4. Moralism Through Characterization -- 5. Moralism and Individuality -- 6. Conclusions -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 25: Childhood and Youth -- 1. Introduction: Terms Used to Designate Children and Youths -- 2. Methodology -- 3. The Physical Portrait -- 4. The Psychological Portrait -- 5. Final Observations -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 26: Death and Other Kinds of Closure -- 1. Demosthenes-Cicero -- 2. Cimon-Lucullus -- 3. Nicias-Crassus -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 27: The Synkrisis -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 28: The Use of Historical Sources -- 1. The Parallel Lives by Plutarch: A Historiographical Project? -- 2. Plutarch's Historical Sources: The Greek Lives and the Roman Lives -- 3. Plutarch's Knowledge of Latin -- 4. Plutarchan Interpretation and the Adaptation of Plutarchan Sources.
5. Method of Selection and Use of Historical Sources -- 6. Athens and Sparta: Historiographical Choices and Historical Interpretation -- 7. Contemporary History: A Comparison of Plutarch and Tacitus -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 29: Tragedy and the Hero -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 30: The Philosopher-King -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Conflict between Philosophy and Politics -- 3. Politics: A Twofold Teaching -- 4. Philosophy: The Internal Speech -- 5. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 31: The Socratic Paradigm -- 1. Introduction: Socrates as the Paradigm -- 2. Socrates and the Failure of Alcibiades -- 3. Contrasting Catos and the Socratic Paradigm -- 4. The Censor -- 5. The Younger Cato -- 6. The Censor as the Intellectual Precursor of Stoicism -- 7. Women and Marriage in the Life of Cato the Younger -- 8. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 32: Fate and Fortune -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 33: The Perils of Ambition -- 1. The Vocabulary of Ambition: Honorific Inscriptions and Political Morality -- 2. Plutarch's Philosophical Analyses: Personal Morality and Individual Psychology -- 3. Ambition in Greek Culture: Sparta, Athens, and the Hellenistic Period -- 4. The Theme of Ambition in Roman History: The Conquest of Greece and the Civil Wars -- 5. Exemplars of Ambition: Alexander and Caesar as "Great Natures" -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 34: Sex, Eroticism, and Politics -- 1. Eroticism, Politics, and Self-Control -- 2. The Politics of Eros in the Agesilaus-Pompey -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 35: Philanthropy, Dignity, and Euergetism -- 1. Luce Clariora: Clear-Cut Distinctions and Definite Ideals -- 2. Historia Magistra Vitae: The Lives.
3. Conclusion.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910208821303321
Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts ; ; Oxford, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014
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A companion to Plutarch / / edited by Mark Beck
A companion to Plutarch / / edited by Mark Beck
Edizione [1]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts ; ; Oxford, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (736 p.)
Disciplina 888/.0108
Altri autori (Persone) BeckMark <1958->
Collana Blackwell companions to the ancient world
Soggetto topico Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN 1-118-31640-1
1-118-31645-2
1-118-31623-1
1-118-31637-1
Classificazione HIS002010
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Intro -- BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Translations and Abbreviations -- Introduction: Plutarch in Greece -- 1. Plutarch's Early Life -- 2. History and Topographies of Memory -- 3. Erga and Aesthetics -- 4. Characterization, Individuality, and the Condensation of Knowledge -- 5. Plutarch in Chaeronea -- 6. The Contents and Scope of this Volume -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART I: Plutarch in Context -- CHAPTER 1: Plutarch and Rome -- 1. A Greek in a Roman World -- 2. Visiting Rome: The Immersion Experience -- 3. Roman Friends -- 4. Evaluating Emperors, Past and Present -- 5. Delphi and Rome -- 6. Plutarch's View of Rome in the Parallel Lives -- 7. Living Under Roman Rule -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 2: Plutarch and the Second Sophistic -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 3: The Role of Philosophy and Philosophers in the Imperial Period -- 1. The Scope of Philosophia -- 2. Public and Social Profile -- 3. Encountering Philosophy -- 4. A Call to Personal Commitment -- 5. Choice and Division -- 6. Professional Output and Forms of Communication -- 7. Integration and Ambivalence -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- PART II: Plutarch's Moralia -- CHAPTER 4: Plutarch and Platonism -- 1. Ethics -- 2. Physics -- 3. Logic -- 4. Conclusion -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 5: Plutarch, Aristotle, and the Peripatetics -- 1. Philosophical Paideia -- 2. The Human Soul -- 3. Reason -- 4. Passion -- 5. Morality (Ēthos) -- 6. Wisdom (Phronēsis) -- 7. Theoretical and Ethical Virtues -- 8. Virtue: The Mesotēs of the Passions -- 9. Freedom from Pain or Grief (Alypia) -- 10. Impassiveness (Apatheia) -- 11. Freedom and Responsibility -- 12. Happiness -- REFERENCES.
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 6: Plutarch and the Stoics -- 1. Theology, Providence, and Evil -- 2. Determinism and Moral Responsibility -- 3. The Soul -- 4. Moral Psychology -- 5. Polemics -- 6. Caution and the Quest for Truth -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 7: Plutarch and Epicureanism -- 1. Introduction: The Epicureans in Plutarch's Work -- 2. Epicureanism in Plutarch's World: Survival and Hostility -- 3. Plutarch's Platonism vs. Epicureanism -- 4. Plutarch against Epicurean Materialism, Empiricism, and Pleasure -- 5. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 8: Plutarch and the Skeptics -- 1. Plutarch on the Difference between the Academics and the Pyrrhonists -- 2. Plutarch and Knowledge of the Sensory World -- 3. Plutarch and Knowledge of the Intelligible and Divine World -- 4. Platonism and Skepticism -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 9: Practical Ethics -- 1. Foundational Research -- 2. The Scope of the Practical Ethics -- 3. Characteristics of Plutarch's Practical Ethics -- 4. Conclusions and Outlook -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 10: Political Philosophy -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 11: Religion and Myth -- 1. Religion -- 2. Myth -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 12: Poetry and Education -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Evidence of Quotation -- 3. How a Young Man Should Listen to Poetry -- 4. Plutarch's Principles Applied -- 5. Conclusions -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 13: Love and Marriage -- 1. Introduction and Considerations -- 2. A Philosophy of Eros: Physical, Spiritual, Conjugal, and Political Eros -- 3. The Religious, Spiritual, and Eschatological Nature of Eros.
4. Conjugal Eros: Women's Capability in Achieving Eros, and its Viability in Marriage -- 5. Political Eros: Appropriate and Inappropriate Relationships for Free Citizens (Both Male and Female) -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 14: The Sympotic Works -- 1. The Philosopher's Dinner Party: Plutarch's Table Talk -- 2. A Socratic Start -- 3. The Muses of Book 9 -- 4. Wise Men at Dinner -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 15: Animals in Plutarch -- 1. Plutarch's Writings on Animals: Characteristics and Challenges -- 2. Ancient Perceptions of Animals -- 3. Plutarch on Rationality in Animals -- 4. Plutarch on Animals: Appraisal and Survival -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 16: Plutarch the Antiquarian -- 1. What is an Antiquarian? Ancients and Moderns -- 2. Plutarch's Antiquarian Erudition -- 3. The Birth of a Greco-Roman Classicism -- 4. An Antiquarian Past for the Present -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- PART III: Plutarch's Biographical Projects -- CHAPTER 17: The Lives of the Caesars -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Date -- 3. The Sources -- 4. The Parallel Tradition -- 5. The Caesars: A Different Kind of Biography? -- 6. Emphases -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 18: Plutarch's Galba and Otho -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bad Leadership and Military Misconduct in Galba's Reign -- 3. More Bad Leadership and Military Misbehavior: The Reign of Otho -- 4. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 19: The Aratus and the Artaxerxes -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 20: The Project of the Parallel Lives: Plutarch's Conception of Biography -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 21: Kratein onomatôn: Language and Value in Plutarch -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 22: Compositional Methods in the Lives -- 1. "Compositional Methods" and Classical Hermeneutics -- 2. General Design and Architecture: Unity, Contrast, Comparison -- 3. The Biographies: Building Blocks and Structure -- 4. Manipulating Sources -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 23: The Prologues -- 1. Prologues, Books, and Lives -- 2. The Function and Structure of Prologues -- 3. The Structure of the Prologues: Examples -- 4. Variation: Naming One Subject before the Other -- 5. Alexander-Caesar and Nicias-Crassus -- 6. "Me," "Us," and "Them" -- 7. Closure -- 8. Books Without Prologues -- APPENDIX: THE CONSTITUENT PARTS OF A BOOK OF PARALLEL LIVES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 24: Morality, Characterization, and Individuality -- 1. Some Theoretical Background -- 2. The Moral Purpose of the Lives -- 3. The Nature of Plutarch's Moralism -- 4. Moralism Through Characterization -- 5. Moralism and Individuality -- 6. Conclusions -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 25: Childhood and Youth -- 1. Introduction: Terms Used to Designate Children and Youths -- 2. Methodology -- 3. The Physical Portrait -- 4. The Psychological Portrait -- 5. Final Observations -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 26: Death and Other Kinds of Closure -- 1. Demosthenes-Cicero -- 2. Cimon-Lucullus -- 3. Nicias-Crassus -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 27: The Synkrisis -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 28: The Use of Historical Sources -- 1. The Parallel Lives by Plutarch: A Historiographical Project? -- 2. Plutarch's Historical Sources: The Greek Lives and the Roman Lives -- 3. Plutarch's Knowledge of Latin -- 4. Plutarchan Interpretation and the Adaptation of Plutarchan Sources.
5. Method of Selection and Use of Historical Sources -- 6. Athens and Sparta: Historiographical Choices and Historical Interpretation -- 7. Contemporary History: A Comparison of Plutarch and Tacitus -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 29: Tragedy and the Hero -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 30: The Philosopher-King -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Conflict between Philosophy and Politics -- 3. Politics: A Twofold Teaching -- 4. Philosophy: The Internal Speech -- 5. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 31: The Socratic Paradigm -- 1. Introduction: Socrates as the Paradigm -- 2. Socrates and the Failure of Alcibiades -- 3. Contrasting Catos and the Socratic Paradigm -- 4. The Censor -- 5. The Younger Cato -- 6. The Censor as the Intellectual Precursor of Stoicism -- 7. Women and Marriage in the Life of Cato the Younger -- 8. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 32: Fate and Fortune -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 33: The Perils of Ambition -- 1. The Vocabulary of Ambition: Honorific Inscriptions and Political Morality -- 2. Plutarch's Philosophical Analyses: Personal Morality and Individual Psychology -- 3. Ambition in Greek Culture: Sparta, Athens, and the Hellenistic Period -- 4. The Theme of Ambition in Roman History: The Conquest of Greece and the Civil Wars -- 5. Exemplars of Ambition: Alexander and Caesar as "Great Natures" -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 34: Sex, Eroticism, and Politics -- 1. Eroticism, Politics, and Self-Control -- 2. The Politics of Eros in the Agesilaus-Pompey -- REFERENCES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 35: Philanthropy, Dignity, and Euergetism -- 1. Luce Clariora: Clear-Cut Distinctions and Definite Ideals -- 2. Historia Magistra Vitae: The Lives.
3. Conclusion.
Record Nr. UNISA-996441549003316
Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts ; ; Oxford, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014
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Like a captive bird : gender and virtue in Plutarch / / Lunette Warren
Like a captive bird : gender and virtue in Plutarch / / Lunette Warren
Autore Warren Lunette
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amherst, Massachusetts : , : Lever Press, , [2022]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (vii, 365 pages)
Disciplina 888/.0108
184
Soggetto topico Sex in literature
Gender identity in literature
Moral exhortation - In literature - History and criticism
Virtue in literature
ISBN 9781643150406
1643150405
Classificazione LIT000000LIT004190LIT025050
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910725984103321
Warren Lunette  
Amherst, Massachusetts : , : Lever Press, , [2022]
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An Opaque Mirror for Trajan : : A Literary Analysis and Interpretation of Plutarch's 'Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata'
An Opaque Mirror for Trajan : : A Literary Analysis and Interpretation of Plutarch's 'Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata'
Autore VAN DER WIEL LAURENS
Pubbl/distr/stampa [S.l.] : , : LEUVEN UNIVERSITY PRESS, , 2024
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource
Disciplina 888/.0108
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 9789461665355
9461665350
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910776162403321
VAN DER WIEL LAURENS  
[S.l.] : , : LEUVEN UNIVERSITY PRESS, , 2024
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Poetic garlands : Hellenistic epigrams in context / / Kathryn J. Gutzwiller
Poetic garlands : Hellenistic epigrams in context / / Kathryn J. Gutzwiller
Autore Gutzwiller Kathryn J
Edizione [Reprint 2020]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 1998
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xiii, 358 p. )
Disciplina 888/.0108
Collana Hellenistic culture and society
Soggetto topico Greek poetry, Hellenistic - History and criticism
Epigrams, Greek - History and criticism
Books and reading - Mediterranean Region
Literary form - History - To 1500
Greek poetry, Hellenistic - History and criticism - To 1500 - Mediterranean Region
Books and reading - History
Literary form
Languages & Literatures
Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures
ISBN 0-520-91897-5
0-585-16033-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto ; 1. Introduction -- ; 2. Hellenistic Epigram Books: The Evidence from Manuscripts and Papyri. "In the Epigrams of ..." On Papyri. In Manuscript -- ; 3. The Third Century: From Stone to Book. Anyte. Nossis. Leonidas of Tarentum -- ; 4. The Third Century: Erotic and Sympotic Epigram. Asclepiades. Posidippus. Hedylus -- ; 5. The Book and the Scholar: Callimachus' Epigrammata. The Epigrammata. Dedicatory Epigrams. Sepulchral Epigrams. Erotic Epigrams -- ; 6. The Art of Variation: From Book to Anthology. Antipater of Sidon. Meleager. ; I. Structure of Cephalan Books -- ; II. Meleager's Amatory Book -- ; III. Structure of Meleager's Amatory Book -- ; IV. Meleager's Dedicatory Book -- ; V. Meleager's Sepulchral Book -- ; VI. Meleager's Epideictic Book.
Record Nr. UNISA-996247981903316
Gutzwiller Kathryn J  
Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 1998
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