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Plutarch in the religious and philosophical discourse of late antiquity

Title: Plutarch in the religious and philosophical discourse of late antiquity / edited by Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, Israel Muñoz Gallarte.
Publication: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

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Description

xiii, 304 pages; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts ; volume 14

Uniform Title

Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts ; v. 14.

Subjects

Note

Papers from the XI Congress of the International Plutarch Society held June 2010.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Plutarch at the crossroads of religion and philosophy / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- Plutarch and philosophy -- Plutarch on the sleeping soul and the waking intellect and Aristotle's double entelechy concept / Abraham P. Bos -- The doctrine of the passions: Plutarch, Posidonius and Galen / Francesco Becchi -- The adventitious motion of the soul (Plut., Stoic. rep. 23, 1045b-f) and the controversy between Aristo of Chios and the middle academy / Raul Caballero -- Plutarch and "pagan monotheism" / Frederick Brenk -- Socrates and Alcibiades: a notorious skandalon in the later Platonist tradition / Geert Roskam -- Salt in the holy water : Plutarch's Quaestiones naturales in Michael Psellus' De omnifaria doctrina / Michiel Meeusen -- Plutarch and religion -- Iacchus in Plutarch / Ana Isabel Jimenez San Cristobal -- Plutarch's idea of god in the religious and philosophical context of late antiquity / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- Plutarch as Apollo's priest at Delphi / Angelo Casanova -- Plutarch's attitude towards astral biology / Aurelio Perez Jimenez -- "Cicalata sul fascino volgarmente detto jettatura": Plutarch, Quaestio convivalis 5.7 / Paola Volpe Cacciatore -- The Eleusinian mysteries and political timing in the life of Alcibiades / Delfim F. Leao -- Mysteriodes theologia: Plutarch's Fr. 157 Sandbach between cultual traditions and philosophical models / Rosario Scannapieco -- A non-fideistic interpretation of 'pistis' in Plutarch's writings: the harmony between 'pistis' and knowledge / George van Kooten -- The colors of the souls / Israel Munoz Gallarte.

Call Number

JFE 13-1078

ISBN

9789004234741 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004234748 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004236851 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2012032857

OCLC

805055708

Title

Plutarch in the religious and philosophical discourse of late antiquity / edited by Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, Israel Muñoz Gallarte.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts ; volume 14

Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts ; v. 14.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Roig Lanzillotta, Lautaro.

Munoz Gallarte, Israel.

International Plutarch Society.

Research Call Number

JFE 13-1078

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