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 |
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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
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New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2004 | ||
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Characters [[electronic resource] /] / Theophrastus ; edited with introduction, translation and commentary by James Diggle |
Autore | Theophrastus |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
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-9910824959103321 |
Theophrastus
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New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2004 | ||
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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 |
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 |
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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
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