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 /

"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 read...

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Other Authors: Pérez Jiménez, Aurelio (honouree.), Leão, Delfim Ferreira (Editor), Roig Lanzillotta, Lautaro (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019
Series:Brill's Plutarch studies ; v. 2.
Subjects:
Plutarch.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • An appreciation of Aurelio Pérez Jiménez / Frances Titchener
  • The Life of Theseus : from theater to history / Carlos Alcalde-Martín
  • "The Heraclean" and "The Dionysian" as structural traits in Plutarch's Biography of Antony / José Luis Calvo Martínez
  • A statesman of many resources : Plutarch on Solon's use of myth and theatricality for political purposes / Delfim F. Leão
  • Plutarch's ghosts / Judith Mossman
  • The religiosity of Plutarch's spartan heroes and their attitude towards divination / Anastasios G. Nikolaidis
  • Plutarch on the great battles of Greece / Christopher Pelling
  • Prophecy and fortune ([tau][upsilon][chi][eta]) in Plutarch's Marius and Sulla / Philip A. Stadter
  • The [mu][epsilon][tau][alpha][beta][omicron][lambda][eta] of the soul (Frags. 177-178 Sandbach) / Paola Volpe
  • The virtues and the intelligence of animals in Plutarch / Francesco Becchi
  • Plutarch's image of the androgynous moon in context / Israel Muñoz Gallarte
  • The myth of human races : can Plutarch help us understand Valentinian anthropology? / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
  • Plutarch's use of myth in his anti-Stoic and anti_Epicurean polemics / Geert Roskam
  • From the Classical Age to Plutarch : a diachronic study of the term [alpha][lambda][iota][tau][eta][rho][iota][omicron][sigma] in Greek literature / Vicente M. Ramón Palerm
  • Plutarch the Greek in the Roman questions / Frederick E. Brenk
  • Plutarch and the separable intellect : some further reflecions / John Dillon
  • Platonic elements in the Chaldaean oracles / Franco Ferrari
  • Marriage, cult and city in Plutarch's Erotikos / Aristoula Georgiadou
  • Plutarch on philology and philologists / Luc Van der Stockt
  • Bibliography of Aurelio Pérez Jiménez / Luisa Lesage Gárriga.

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