Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Frederick E. Brenk -- Copyright Page / Frederick E. Brenk -- Dedication / Frederick E. Brenk -- Foreword / Tim Whitmarsh -- Preface Frederick Brenk’s Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-Roman Religion, Jews and Christians / Frederick E. Brenk -- Acknowledgements / Frederick E. Brenk -- Abbreviations / Frederick E. Brenk -- Chapter 1 Plutarch’s Flawed Characters: The Personae of the Dialogues / Frederick E. Brenk -- Chapter 2 “In Learned Conversation:” Plutarch’s Symposiac Literature and the Elusive Authorial Voice / Frederick E. Brenk -- Chapter 3 Space, Time, and Language in On the Oracles of the Pythia : 3,000 Years of History, Never Proved Wrong / Frederick E. Brenk -- Chapter 4 Voices from the Past: Quotations and Intertexuality: The Oracles at Delphi / Frederick E. Brenk -- Chapter 5 Sliding Atoms or Supernatural Light: Plutarch’s Erotikos and the “On Eros” Literature / Frederick E. Brenk -- Chapter 6 Looking at Conjectures (Guesses?) in Plutarch’s Dialogue on Love / Frederick E. Brenk -- Chapter 7 Plutarch the Greek in the Roman Questions / Frederick E. Brenk -- Chapter 8 Plutarch: Philosophy, Religion, and Ethics / Frederick E. Brenk -- Chapter 9 Plutarch and Pagan Monotheism / Frederick E. Brenk -- Chapter 10 “Searching for Truth”?: Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris / Frederick E. Brenk -- Chapter 11 “None Greater Than in the Holy City:” Lucian, Pausanias, and Plutarch on Religious Shrines / Frederick E. Brenk -- Chapter 12 Philo and Plutarch on the Nature of God / Frederick E. Brenk -- Chapter 13 A Name by Any Name? The Allegorizing Etymologies of Philo and Plutarch / Frederick E. Brenk -- Chapter 14 Plutarch’s Monotheism and the New Testament / Frederick E. Brenk -- Chapter 15 “Most Beautiful and Divine:” Graeco-Romans (Especially Plutarch) and Paul on Love and Marriage / Frederick E. Brenk -- Chapter 16 Plutarch on the Christians: Why So Silent? Ignorance, Indifference, or Indignity? / Frederick E. Brenk -- Indexes / Frederick E. Brenk.

The present book includes sixteen studies by Professor Frederick E. Brenk on Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-Roman Religion, Jews and Christians. Of them, thirteen were published earlier in different venues and three appear here for the first time. Written between 2009 and 2022, these studies not only provide an excellent example of Professor Brenk’s incisiveness and deep knowledge of Plutarch; they also provide an excellent overview of Plutarchan studies of the last years on a variety of themes. Indeed, one of the most salient characteristics of Brenk’s scholarship is his constant interaction and conversation with the most recent scholarly literature.

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