A Life Devoted to Plutarch: Philology, Philosophy, and Reception : : Selected Essays by Paola Volpe Cacciatore / / by Paola Volpe Cacciatore ; (Edited by) Serena Citro, Fabio Tanga.
Philology, philosophy, commentary and reception in Plutarch's work are only some of the main topics discussed within a large academic output devoted to the writer of Chaeronea by Professor Paola Volpe Cacciatore. The volume is divided into four sections: Plutarchean Fragments, Quaestiones convi...
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| Superior document: | Brill's Plutarch Studies ; 08 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English Italian |
| Series: | Brill's Plutarch Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Notes: | English version of studies originally written and published in Italian. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Aurelio Pérez Jiménez
- Part I. Plutarch's fragments. Plutarch's fr. 24 Sandbach; For the understanding of a lost text; "Whatever your destiny, to work is best" : Plutarch, fr. 44 Sandbach; Plutarch and the Commentary on Phaenomena of Aratus; The metabolē of the soul (Frags. 177-178 Sandbach)
- Part 2. Quaestiones convivales. Plutarch, Quaest. conv. 4.6: an example of religious syncretism; "Cicalata sul fascino volgarmente detto jettatura" : Plutarch, Quaest. conv. 5.7; Plutarchus in Plutarcho: De primo frigido and Quaest. conv. 6.4-5; Quaest. conv. 6.8 on bulimia : Plutarch's explanation for a current problem
- Part 3. Religion & philosophy. Plutarch's dikaiosynē in the writings against the Stoics; Is the god of the Stoics a philanthropist?; Fate and luck in Plutarch's works against the Stoics : an unresolved issue; The justice of the sage : polemic of Plutarch against the Stoics; Plutarch's De Iside et Osiride : a reconciliation between religion and myth
- Part 4. Plutarch's reception from humanism to modern age. Reflections on the translation of De liberis educandis by Guarino Guarini; The Latin translation of De genio Socratis by Naogeorgus; Poetic quotations in humanistic translatinos of De liberis educandis; "What is the best music, ancient or modern?:" Pietro Metastasio and De musica.