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Book SynopsisPlutarch 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. He felt confident in the most technical and specialized discussions, yet was not afraid of rhetorical generalizations. In his voluminous oeuvre, he appears as a sharp polemicist and a loving father, an ardent pupil but also a kind, inspiring teacher, a sober historian and a teller of wondrous tales. In view of all these different personae, erudite versatility is without any doubt a major characteristic of Plutarch’s works. A Versatile Gentleman is dedicated to Luc Van der Stockt, professor emeritus of Greek language and literature at KU Leuven and a truly versatile gentleman. The volume aims to do justice to his and Plutarch’s versatility by discussing the Chaeronean from many different angles. As such, it sheds new light on the coherence of, and the tensions in, Plutarch’s thinking and writing.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
F.B. TITCHENER
I. Plutarch's Versatile Philosophy
Plutarch the Philosopher and Plutarch the Historian on Apatheia
JOHN DILLON
The Dividing Line: Theological/Religious Arguments in Plutarch's Anti-Stoic Polemics
RAINER HIRSCH-LUIPOLD
The Cruel Consistency of De sera numinis vindicta
JAN OPSOMER
Psychē in Plutarch's Works
PAOLA VOLPE CACCIATORE
II. Literary Versatility
Plutarch's Simonides: A Versatile Gentleman?
EWEN BOWIE
Plutarch's Flawed Characters: The Personae of the Dialogues
FREDERICK E. BRENK
Dionysus and the Structure of Plutarch's Table Talk
JUDITH MOSSMAN
Tragic Colouring in Plutarch
CHRISTOPHER PELLING
III. The Versatile World of the Lives
The Serio-Comic Life of Antony
MARK BECK
The Nature of Virtue and the Need for Self-Knowledge in Plutarch's Demosthenes-Cicero
JEFFREY BENEKER
“This Topic Belongs to Another Kind of Writing”: The Digressions in Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus
G. ROSKAM -; S. VERDEGEM
Sulla's Three-Thousand-νοῦμμοι Apartment: Plutarch's Problematic Code-Switching
PHILIP A. STADTER
IV. A Versatile Paideia
Who Was Eucles? Plutarch and His Sources on the Legendary Marathon-Runner (De gloria Atheniensium 347CD)
LUCIA ATHANASSAKI
De Plutarchi Malignitate
HEINZ GERD INGENKAMP
Consistency and Criticism in Plutarch's Writings Concerning the Laws of Solon
DELFIM F. LEàƒO
Selenographic Description: Critical Annotations to Plutarch, De facie 944C
AURELIO PÉREZ-JIMÉNEZ
Bibliography
Index locorum
