Plutarch: Volume 47 (New Surveys in the Classics, Series Number 47) - Softcover

Roskam, Geert

 
9781009108225: Plutarch: Volume 47 (New Surveys in the Classics, Series Number 47)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1009108220 ISBN 13: 9781009108225
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Plutarch of Chaeronea is one of the most influential and fascinating authors of antiquity. His Parallel Lives and Moralia are storehouses of challenging questions, valuable insights and interesting observations. Moreover, they contain a wealth of quotations from and references to earlier writers and traditions, and thus provide one of the richest gateways to the ancient world. This book introduces the reader to Plutarch's life and to the different facets of his variegated thinking and writing, such as his tremendous erudition, his Platonism and (moral) philosophy, his interpretation of history and his view of God. Above all, Plutarch stands out as a particularly clever and subtle thinker, driven by a spirit of painstaking enquiry (zetesis) that shows authentic and impressive intellectual honesty and sincere love of the truth. In this respect, as in many others, he remains an inspiring model even for us today.

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About the Author

Geert Roskam is professor of Greek Studies at the University of Leuven. He is the author of many articles and edited volumes on ancient philosophy and of On the Path to Virtue: The Stoic Doctrine of Moral Progress and its Reception in (Middle-)Platonism (2005), Live Unnoticed: On the Vicissitudes of an Epicurean Doctrine (2007), A Commentary on Plutarch's De latenter vivendo (2007), and Plutarch's Maxime cum principibus philosopho esse disserendum. An Interpretation with Commentary (2009).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1009108220
ISBN 13 
9781009108225
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
200