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A man of many interests : Plutarch on religion, myth, and magic : essays in honor of Aurelio Pérez Jiménez /

A man of many interests : Plutarch on religion, myth, and magic : essays in honor of Aurelio Pérez Jiménez / Essays in Honor of Aurelio Pérez Jiménez edited by Delfim Ferreira Leão, Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta. - 1 online resource. - Brill's Plutarch Studies ; 2 Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004393820 . - Brill's Plutarch Studies ; 2. Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004393820. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- An Appreciation of Aurelio Pérez Jiménez -- Lives -- The Life of Theseus: From Theater to History / “The Heraclean” and “The Dionysian” as Structural Traits in Plutarch’s Biography of Antony / A Statesman of Many Resources: Plutarch on Solon’s Use of Myth and Theatricality for Political Purposes / Plutarch’s Ghosts / The Religiosity of Plutarch’s Spartan Heroes and Their Attitude towards Divination / Plutarch on the Great Battles of Greece / Prophecy and Fortune (τύχη) in Plutarch’s Marius and Sulla / Moralia -- The μεταβολή of the Soul (Frags. 177–178 Sandbach) / The Virtues and the Intelligence of Animals in Plutarch / Plutarch’s Image of the Androgynous Moon in Context / The Myth of Human Races: Can Plutarch Help Us Understand Valentinian Anthropology? / Plutarch’s Use of Myth in His Anti-Stoic and Anti-Epicurean Polemics / From the Classical Age to Plutarch: A Diachronic Study of the Term ἀλιτήριος in Greek Literature / Plutarch the Greek in the Roman Questions / Plutarch and the Separable Intellect: Some Further Reflections / Platonic Elements in the Chaldaean Oracles / Marriage, Cult and City in Plutarch’s Erotikos / Plutarch on Philology and Philologists / Back Matter -- Bibliography of Aurelio Pérez Jiménez / Indexes. Carlos Alcalde-Martín -- José Luis Calvo Martínez -- Delfim Leão -- Judith Mossman -- Anastasios G. Nikolaidis -- Christopher Pelling -- Philip A. Stadter -- Paola Volpe -- Francesco Becchi -- Israel Muñoz Gallarte -- Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- Geert Roskam -- Vicente M. Ramón Palerm -- Frederick E. Brenk -- John Dillon -- Franco Ferrari -- Aristoula Georgiadou -- Luc Van der Stockt -- Luisa Lesage Gárriga --

The title of this volume A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic. Essays in honour of Aurelio Pérez Jiménez is first and foremost a coalescing homage to Plutarch and to Aurelio, and to the way they have been inspiring (as master and indirect disciple) a multitude of readers in their path to knowledge, here metonymically represented by the scholars who offer their tribute to them. The analysis developed throughout the several contributions favors a philological approach of wide spectrum, i.e., stemming from literary and linguistic aspects, it projects them into their cultural, religious, philosophical, and historical framework. The works were organized into two broad sections, respectively devoted to the Lives and to the Moralia .

9789004404472 9789004404359

10.1163/9789004404472 DOI

2019049999


Plutarch.

B603

888/.01