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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Beck, Mark, 1958- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2014.
Edición:1.
Colección:Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.
Temas:
Plutarch > Criticism and interpretation.
Plutarch
Philosophy, Ancient.
Philosophie ancienne.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
Philosophy, Ancient
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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