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Serie: Plutarchea hypomnemata
e-bookEngels499 blz.9789461660091
20-3-2013
At the beginning of the second century AD, Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on important ethical issues and to use the example of these great men from the past to improve his or her own conduct. Meer
e-bookEngels252 blz.9789461660114
20-3-2013
The question of the political relevance of philosophy, and of the role which the philosopher should play in the government of his state, was often discussed in Antiquity. Meer
e-bookEngels253 blz.9789461661890
17-11-2015
The 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. Meer
e-bookEngels279 blz.9789461660190
20-3-2013
Plutarch's De latenter vivendo is the only extant work from Antiquity in which Epicurus' famous ideal of an 'unnoticed life' (lathe biosas) is thematised as such. Meer
gebondenEngels520 blz.9789462703902
8-2-2024
Plutarch’s Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata (Sayings of Kings and Commanders) holds a peculiar position in his oeuvre. This collection of almost 500 anecdotes of barbarian, Greek, and Roman rulers and generals is introduced by a dedicatory letter to Trajan as a summary of the author’s well known and widely read Parallel Lives. Meer
gebondenEngels220 blz.9789462705326
e-bookEngels310 blz.9789461662033
28-6-2016
Essays on erudite versatility in Plutarch's works.
Plutarch was a brilliant Platonist, an erudite historian, a gifted author of highly polished literary dialogues, a priest of Apollo at Delphi, and a devoted politician in his hometown Chaeronea. Meer
e-bookEngels256 blz.9789461662361
24-9-2017
An in-depth analysis of oracular divination in Plutarch's thought.
Oracular divination was of special concern for Plutarch of Chaeronea (45-120 AD), Platonic philosopher as well as priest at the oracle of Apollo in Delphi. Meer
e-bookAnders326 blz.9789461661517
28-11-2014
In-depth analysis of Plutarch's anti-Epicurean treatise Adversus Colotem.
L'Adversus Colotem, composto intorno al 100 d.C., fa parte, insieme al non posse e al de latenter vivendo, della cosiddetta 'trilogia anti-epicurea' di Plutarco. Meer