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Peeters, Louvain (.), 2004. IX,586p. Paperback. Upper corner front cover slightly creased. May require extra shipping costs: weight including packing from 1 - 2 Kg. 'Manliness, prowess, deeds of valour, excellence: 'virtus' is a term which has a broad semantic range, which differs significantly from the meanings attached to such modern notions as the English 'virtue' or the French 'vertu'. Although deeply rooted in a system of practices and discourses aimed at continuing the 'mos maiorum', the traditional concept of 'virtus' underwent serious changes in the course of time: it was reconsidered, reassessed, and even replaced with new definitions of moral excellence. The editors of the present volume have sought to gather contributions which shed new light on the ancient representation of moral excellence or discuss relevant aspects of the rich but complex 'Wirkungsgeschichte' of the Roman concept of 'virtus'. Thematically coherent, the book testifies to the rich variety of approaches currently adopted in classical philology, ancient history, Early Christian and Byzantine Studies, and the study of Latin texts from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. (Publisher's information). A.o.: M. HUYS: Did Roman Morals Require Virtuous Women to Keep Silent? A Note on Plautus, 'Rudens'1114 (pp.29-43); T. DENEIRE: A Textbook in Latin Prose Composition? 'Virtutes' and vitia dicendi' in 'Rhet. Her.' 4,12-16 (pp.89-117); V. HUNINK: 'Solacia mali': Examples of Virtue in Tacitus' 'Historiae' (pp.173-187); G. PARTOENS: Defeating the Pagan Gods: Military Virtue in Prudentius' 'Libri contra Symmachum' (pp.299-339); A. WOUTERS: Vicious and virtuous Types of dialogue in Peter Abelard's 'collationes' (pp.437-461); J. PAPY: Sanctifying stoic Virtues? Justus Lipsius's Use of Clement of Alexandria in the 'Maneductio ad Stoicam philosophiam' (pp.507-529).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2016 Leuven University Press hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction - F.B. Titchener; Chapter 2: Plutarch the Philosopher and Plutarch the Historian on Apatheia - John Dillon; Chapter 3: The Dividing Line: Theological/Religious Arguments in Plutarch's Anti-Stoic Polemics - Rainer Hirsch-Luipold; Chapter 4: The Cruel Consistency of De sera numinis vindicta - Jan Opsomer; Chapter 5: Psyche in Plutarch's Works - Paola Volpe Cacciatore; Chapter 6: Plutarch's Simonides: A Versatile Gentleman? - Ewen Bowie; Chapter 7: Plutarch's Flawed Characters: The Personae of the Dialogues - Frederick E. Brenk; Chapter 8: Dionysus and the Structure of Plutarch's Table Talk - Judith Mossman; Chapter 9: Tragic Colouring in Plutarch - Christopher Pelling; Chapter 10: The Serio-Comic Life of Antony - Mark Beck; Chapter 11: The Nature of Virtue and the Need for Self-Knowledge in Plutarch's Demosthenes-Cicero - Jeffrey Beneker; Chapter 12: 'This Topic Belongs to Another Kind of Writing': The Digressions in Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus - G. Roskam - S. Verdegem; Chapter 13: Sulla's Three-Thousand-noummoi Apartment: Plutarch's Problematic Code-Switching - Philip A. Stadter; Chapter 14: Who Was Eucles? Plutarch and His Sources on the Legendary Marathon-Runner (De gloria Atheniensium 347CD) - Lucia Athanassaki; Chapter 15: De Plutarchi Malignitate - Heinz Gerd Ingenkamp; Chapter 16: Consistency and Criticism in Plutarch's Writings Concerning the Laws of Solon - Delfim F. Leao; Chapter 17: Selenographic Description: Critical Annotations to Plutarch, De facie 944C - Aurelio Perez-Jimenez. …

Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2005. VIII,507p. Original grey embossed cloth. Series: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Series 1, XXXIII. ?In this broad-ranging, learned and lucidly written book R. offers an overview of the Stoic doctrine of ?moral progress? (prokopè) and its ?afterlife? in (Middle-)Platonism. The Stoics notoriously held that every man who is not perfectly wise remains an utter fool. They nevertheless - ?paradoxically?- also maintained that moral progress is possible. The book is divided into two parts. In the first the Stoic doctrine of progress is discussed. (?) Only life starting from un unconditionally affirmative attitude towards what is, is good; if not, it is bad. The transition from bad to good hence necessarily happens by an instantaneous radical change. The role of progress is to prepare for this change (p.29). (?) The section of Seneca is particularly noteworthy: it contains an excellent interpretation of ?Ep.? 75.8-14 and ?De tranq. an?2.1-3, offering a survey of the various classes of ?proficient? distinguished by Seneca. In the second part R. Deals with the reception of the doctrine by the most important of these critics, the (Middle-)Platonists. Not sharing the Stoics radical interpretation of the good life, they used the common-sense argument that someone who proceeds on the road to virtue can no longer be an utter fool. The Stoic dichotomy between fools and sages was hence rejected and replaced by a trachoma of fools, those who make progress, and sages. R. starts his discussion with Philo (Chapter 3), usually placed in the tradition of Platonism? (p.148), and ends with the handbook authors Alcinous and Apuleius (Chapter 5). The intermediate Chapter 4 deals with Plutarch, and turns out to be a commentary upon Plutarch?s treatise ?On becoming aware of progress in virtue?, ?the most important extant ancient text about the problem of moral progress? (p.10). (?) R.?s extensive running commentary is the first ever in English, and really forms the core of the book (pp.222-363). In the appendix a helpful elaborate structural plan of Plutarch?s treatise is added (pp.405-412). (?) The theme of the book thus turns out to be not so much reconstruction of the Stoic doctrine as such, but rather its reception by later Stoics and (Middle-)Platonist.? (RENÉ BROUWER in The Classical Review (New Series), 2007, pp.73-73).…

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