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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Plutarch"”.
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Plutarch reading Plato: Interpretation and Mythmaking in the Early Empire
<p>Plutarch of Chaeronea, an eminent figure among the Platonists of the early Roman Empire, built his philosophy by continuously drawing frameworks and models from Plato’s dialogues, both in his works dedicated solely to exegesis and his own lively philosophical dialogues. He both interprets Plato …
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"A philological and historical commentary on the ""Life of Pelopidas"" by Plutarch"
The Life of Pelopidas by Plutarch, parallel to the Life of Marcellus, is Plutarch's only extant Theban Life after the loss of the Life of Epaminondas. The only other Life of Pelopidas is given by Nepos, but it appears rather as a brief supplement to his Life of Epaminondas than as a Life standing …
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Catiline as Portrayed by Cicero and Sallust
… has "been written chiefly by Sallust, Cicero and Plutarch. The last named mentions him in his lives of Caesar and Cicero. All of these men have failed to give us a true portrayal of Catiline's character for they were not historians in the true sense. Cicero is striving to prove the conspiracy and …
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A historical commentary on Cornelius Nepos life of Themistocles
… on Themistocles are predominantly Greek, namely Plutarch, Herodotus, and Diodorus. Justin's Latin epitome of Trogus also covers this period.
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The anatomy of a conqueror: the image and reality of Lucius Aemilius Paullus
… of Paullus as found in Polybius, Livy, and Plutarch; and, finally, the attempt is made to provide a more objective view of Paullus and his part in history.</p> <p>Every aspect of Polybius’ complex portrayal of his patron, Paullus, is examined with special emphasis given to the Polybian …
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The Roman Senate at War: A Study of Senatorial Government and Administration during the Second Punic War, 218-201 BC BCE
… accounts by Appian, Cassius Dio (and Zonaras), Plutarch, and Valerius Maximus. These literary accounts (together with any relevant epigraphic evidence) will be carefully cited, discussed, and analysed to form a positivist, empirical, and evidence-based inquiry into the period in question. Aside …
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BEFORE ‘CHURCH’: POLITICAL, ETHNO-RELIGIOUS, AND THEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE COLLECTIVE DESIGNATION OF PAULINE CHRIST-FOLLOWERS AS EKKLĒSIAI
… civic ideology. Greek literary (e.g., Plutarch) and inscriptional evidence suggests that if an Imperial period non-civic group (e.g., voluntary association) self-designated as an <em>ekklēsia</em>, it could have been perceived as a positive, rather than as an anti-Roman, participant in …
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Honourable subordination: reading 1 Peter in the light of contemporary Graeco-Roman texts
… Graeco-Roman authors including Dio, Plutarch, Epictetus and Josephus, as well as popular morality sayings that circulated widely across the Roman Empire during this period. Through a comparative analysis of the Petrine text and the contemporary materials, we seek to assess how the …
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Empathy and Compassion in the Medicine and Literature of the First and Second Centuries AD
… of compassion and the concept of medical ethics. Plutarch, a moral philosopher, and the novelists, Achilles Tatius and Chariton, exhibit this ‘cross-chatter’ between genres of the period. Plutarch’s Moralia shows his compassionate concern with the moral implications of breeding and slaughtering …
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Studies in the Ancient Reception of Seneca the Younger
… authors in both Greek and Latin (Epictetus, Plutarch, Dio Chrysostom, and Marcus Aurelius).
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Duty, Honor, Country: Generalship and Institutional Magnanimity
… where a person fits within the whole regime. Plutarch helps to understand the contours of Aristotle’s magnanimity more deeply by describing the lives and histories of men who either succeed or fail to demonstrate the theoretical principles of virtuous living. His descriptions help …
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Der Thüringer Wundarzt Ludwig Cron und seine Schrift über Aderlaß und Zahnextraktion
… aus der Antike heranzieht (Prusias, Pyrrhos, Plutarch). Über die Auflage und die Verbreitung von Ludwig Crons Zahnextraktionsschrift kann heute nichts mehr gesagt werden. Analysiert man den Inhalt des Werkes, kommt man zur Auffassung, daß das vom Autor anvisierte Lesepublikum aus Wundärzten in …
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Pragmatic constructivism in Higher Education
… filled’ or ‘fires to be lit’ (e.g. Freire, 2018, Plutarch, 1927)? Will they learn more by rote or by creating a solution to a problem using their previous experience? Is learning a sequential process or an iterative journey? The published works and the critical review clearly locate the author on …
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Adaptation and Tradition in Hellenistic Sacred Laws
… threatened their cults? Polybius, Pausanias, and Plutarch shed much light on our most pressing questions. For instance, what did failed cults look like? How did Greeks envisage dilapidated sanctuaries and defunct cults? Overall, the case studies based on sacred laws present a Greek view of …
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Continuity as Crisis: Two Traditions of Theorizing about Animal Minds
… project brings together thinkers as diverse as Plutarch, Lucretius, Montaigne, La Mettrie, Hume, Darwin, Margaret Washburn and Kristin Andrews, who articulate and defend naturalistic approaches to cognition that do not presuppose a cognitive hierarchy with human abilities situated at the top. …
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Republicanism In Coriolanus
<p>Shakespeare's Coriolanus is widely considered to be the most political of his plays. Scholarship on the subject of the politics contained within the play arrives at different conclusions. Samuel Coleridge believed the play to be politically impartial. Others believe it betrays an obvious vote of …
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Costruzione storica e filosofia morale nella "Vita di Pompeo" di Plutarco: un commento tematico
… sezione dell’opera, a cura di Herbert Heftner – Plutarch und der Aufstieg des Pompeius. Ein historischer Kommentar zu Plutarchs Pompeiusvita. Teil I: Kap. 1-45 (1995), versione riveduta e ampliata della dissertazione dottorale discussa a Vienna nel 1993/94. La scelta dell’autore di dedicare …
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Les voies/voix radicales en Angleterre, 1789-1848
… but we ordered them following a chronology, like Plutarch enjoyed juxtaposing Greeks and Romans historical figures. Thanks to this technique we wanted to highlight the features of the radical leaders’ speeches, personalities and epochs, but also their differences. At last, we tried to draw the …