In mist apparelled : religious themes in Plutarch's Moralia and Lives /

In mist apparelled : religious themes in Plutarch's Moralia and Lives /

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Main Author: Brenk, Frederick E.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Lugduni Batavorum : Brill, 1977.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 48.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 1-203, ISBN: 9789004381049.

Subjects:

Plutarch. > Moralia.
Plutarch > Themes, motives.
Plutarch. > Lives.
Plutarch.
Lives (Plutarch)
Moralia (Plutarch)
Didactic literature, Greek > History and criticism.
Biography as a literary form.
Didactic literature, Greek.
Religion in literature.
Themes, motives.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Call Number: PA4383 .B7

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
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  • Introduction /
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  • In the Throes of Superstition: Some Preliminaries on the Development of Plutarch's Thought /
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  • Dreams and the Tortures of the Damned /
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  • Wax Gods and the Shadow of the Moon /
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  • Not a Tear: Early Daimones and Human Sacrifice /
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  • Limb Torn from Limb: Mysticism and the Young Plutarch /
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  • Not for Any God but to Avert Evil Spirits: Cleombrotosʼ Daimones /
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  • Lampriasʼs Reply: Aught else than Souls that Make their Rounds in Mists Apparelled? /
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  • The Force of the Cause Whirled about in Disorder and Unrestrictedly: Daimon and Tyche in Plutarch /
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  • And to All the Sign Seemed Evil: Omens and Portents /
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  • Still Feeling the Effects of his Dream: The Dreams of the Lives /
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  • Not a Pretence for Cowardice: The Delphic Oracle in the Lives /
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  • Clinging Like Bees or Bats: Divine Retribution in the Lives /
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  • Bibliography /
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  • Index of Subjects and Ancient Names /
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  • Index of Modern Authors /
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