The Unity of Plutarch's Work - 'Moralia' Themes in the 'Lives', Features of the 'Lives' in the 'Moralia'

This volume of collected essays explores the premise that Plutarch's work, notwithstanding its amazing thematic multifariousness, constantly pivots on certain ideological pillars which secure its unity and coherence. So, unlike other similar books which, more or less, concentrate on either the Lives or the Moralia or on some particular aspect(s) of Plutarch's oeuvre, the articles of the present volume observe Plutarch at work in both Lives and Moralia, thus bringing forward and illustrating the inner unity of his varied literary production.
The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly wide-ranging and the studies collected here inquire into many important issues of Plutarchean scholarship: the conditions under which Plutarch's writings were separated into two distinct corpora, his methods of work and the various authorial techniques employed, the interplay between Lives and Moralia, Plutarch and politics, Plutarch and philosophy, literary aspects of Plutarch's oeuvre, Plutarch on women, Plutarch in his epistemological and socio-historical context. In sum, this book brings Plutarchean scholarship to date by revisiting and discussing older and recent problematization concerning Plutarch, in an attempt to further illuminate his personality and work.

About the author

Anastasios G. Nikolaidis, University of Crete, Greece.

Report

"Der nützliche Sammelband ist dabei hilfreich, die außerordentlich vielen Facetten des Werkes Plutarchs aufzuzeigen."
Johannes Engels in: Sehepunkte 9/2009

Product details

• Assisted by: Anastasio Nikolaidis (Editor), Anastasios Nikolaidis (Editor), Anastasios G. Nikolaidis (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.09.2008
• EAN: 9783110202496
• ISBN: 978-3-11-020249-6
• No. of pages: 851
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 61 mm x 240 mm
• Weight: 1560 g
• Series: Millennium-Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n.Chr.; Millennium Studies in the culture and history of the first millennium C.E.; Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies; Millennium-Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n.Chr.; Millennium Studies in the culture and history of the first millennium C.E.; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity