Brill's companion to the reception of Plutarch / / edited by Sophia Xenophontos, Katerina Oikonomopoulou.

• Superior document: Brill's companions to classical reception ; Volume 20
• TeilnehmendeR: Xenophontos, Sophia A., 1985-; Oikonomopoulou, Aikaterini, 1977-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions to classical reception ; Volume 20.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright page --; Acknowledgements --; Figures --; Table of Latin Abbreviations of Titles of Plutarch’s Moralia with English Translation --; Table of Latin Abbreviations of Plutarch’s Lives --; Notes on Editors and Contributors --; Note to the Reader --; Introduction /; The Early Fame --; Plutarch in Macrobius and Athenaeus /; Plutarch in Gellius and Apuleius /; Plutarch’s Reception in Imperial Graeco-Roman Philosophy /; Plutarch and Atticism: Herodian, Phrynichus, Philostratus /; Plutarch and the Papyrological Evidence /; Late Antiquity and Byzantium --; Plutarch and Early Christian Theologians /; Plutarch in Christian Apologetics (Eusebios, Theodoretos, Cyril) /; Plutarch and the Neoplatonists: Porphyry, Proklos, Simplikios /; On Donkeys, Weasels and New-Born Babies, or What Damaskios Learned from Plutarch /; Plutarch in Stobaios /; The Reception of Plutarch in Constantinople in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries /; The Reception of Plutarch in Michael Psellos’ Philosophical, Theological and Rhetorical Works: an Elective Affinity /; Plutarch in Michael Psellos’ Chronographia /; Plutarch and Zonaras: from Biography to a Chronicle with a Political Leaning /; Plutarch in Twelfth-Century Learned Culture /; Precepts, Paradigms and Evaluations: Niketas Choniates’ Use of Plutarch /; Maximos Planoudes and the Transmission of Plutarch’s Moralia /; Plutarch and Theodore Metochites /; Plutarch’s Reception in the Work of Nikephoros Xanthopoulos /; Plutarch and Late Byzantine Intellectuals (c. 1350–1460) /; Other Medieval Cultures --; Plutarch in the Syriac Tradition: a Preliminary Overview /; Para-Plutarchan Traditions in the Medieval Islamicate World /; Renaissance --; Leonardo Bruni and Plutarch /; Plutarch and Poliziano /; Plutarch’s French Translation by Amyot /; The First Editions of Plutarch’s Works, and the Translation by Thomas North /; Humanist Latin Translations of the Moralia /; Plutarch and Montaigne /; Taking Centre Stage: Plutarch and Shakespeare /; Enlightenment and the Modern Age --; Plutarch from Voltaire to Stendhal /; Plutarch and Goethe /; Plutarch and Adamantios Koraes /; Plutarch and the Victorians /; Plutarch and Cavafy /; Plutarch in American Literature: Emerson and Other Authors /; Plutarch’s Fortune in Spain /; A Sage and a Kibbutznik: Plutarch in Modern Hebrew Literature and Culture /; Back Matter --; Index Rerum et Nominum --; Index Locorum.
• ISBN: 9004280405
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Sophia Xenophontos, Katerina Oikonomopoulou.

The Greek biographer and philosopher Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 45-125 AD) makes a fascinating case-study for reception studies not least because of his uniquely extensive and diverse afterlife. Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plutarch offers the first comprehensive analysis of Plutarch’s rich reception history from the Roman Imperial period through Late Antiquity and Byzantium to the Renaissance, Enlightenment and the modern era. The thirty-seven chapters that make up this volume, written by a remarkable line-up of experts, explore the appreciation, contestation and creative appropriation of Plutarch himself, his thought and work in the history of literature across various cultures and intellectual traditions in Europe, America, North Africa, and the Middle East.