Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plutarch /

The Greek biographer and philosopher Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 45-125 AD) makes a fascinating case-study for reception studies not least because of his uniquely extensive and diverse afterlife. Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plutarch offers the first comprehensive analysis of Plutarch�...

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Other Authors: Sophia Xenophontos (Editor), Katerina Oikonomopoulou (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception ; 20.
Brill's Companions to Classical Studies Online V, ISBN: 9789004420878.

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Call Number: PA4387.A2

Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Figures
  • Table of Latin Abbreviations of Titles of Plutarch's Moralia with English Translation
  • Table of Latin Abbreviations of Plutarch's Lives
  • Notes on Editors and Contributors
  • Note to the Reader
  • Introduction /
  • Sophia Xenophontos and Katerina Oikonomopoulou
  • The Early Fame
  • Plutarch in Macrobius and Athenaeus /
  • Maria Vamvouri Ruffy
  • Plutarch in Gellius and Apuleius /
  • Katerina Oikonomopoulou
  • Plutarch's Reception in Imperial Graeco-Roman Philosophy /
  • Mauro Bonazzi
  • Plutarch and Atticism: Herodian, Phrynichus, Philostratus /
  • Katarzyna Jażdżewska
  • Plutarch and the Papyrological Evidence /
  • Thomas Schmidt
  • Late Antiquity and Byzantium
  • Plutarch and Early Christian Theologians /
  • Arkadiy Avdokhin
  • Plutarch in Christian Apologetics (Eusebios, Theodoretos, Cyril) /
  • Sébastien Morlet
  • Plutarch and the Neoplatonists: Porphyry, Proklos, Simplikios /
  • Elsa Giovanna Simonetti
  • On Donkeys, Weasels and New-Born Babies, or What Damaskios Learned from Plutarch /
  • Geert Roskam
  • Plutarch in Stobaios /
  • Michele Curnis
  • The Reception of Plutarch in Constantinople in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries /
  • András Németh
  • The Reception of Plutarch in Michael Psellos' Philosophical, Theological and Rhetorical Works: an Elective Affinity /
  • Eudoxia Delli
  • Plutarch in Michael Psellos' Chronographia /
  • Diether Roderich Reinsch
  • Plutarch and Zonaras: from Biography to a Chronicle with a Political Leaning /
  • Theofili Kampianaki
  • Plutarch in Twelfth-Century Learned Culture /
  • Michael Grünbart
  • Precepts, Paradigms and Evaluations: Niketas Choniates' Use of Plutarch /
  • Alicia Simpson
  • Maximos Planoudes and the Transmission of Plutarch's Moralia /
  • Inmaculada Pérez Martín
  • Plutarch and Theodore Metochites /
  • Sophia Xenophontos
  • Plutarch's Reception in the Work of Nikephoros Xanthopoulos /
  • Stephanos Efthymiadis
  • Plutarch and Late Byzantine Intellectuals (c. 1350-1460) /
  • Florin Leonte
  • Other Medieval Cultures
  • Plutarch in the Syriac Tradition: a Preliminary Overview /
  • Alberto Rigolio
  • Para-Plutarchan Traditions in the Medieval Islamicate World /
  • Aileen Das and Pauline Koetschet
  • Renaissance
  • Leonardo Bruni and Plutarch /
  • Marianne Pade
  • Plutarch and Poliziano /
  • Fabio Stok
  • Plutarch's French Translation by Amyot /
  • ✝Françoise Frazier and Olivier Guerrier
  • The First Editions of Plutarch's Works, and the Translation by Thomas North /
  • Michele Lucchesi
  • Humanist Latin Translations of the Moralia /
  • Francesco Becchi
  • Plutarch and Montaigne /
  • Christopher Edelman
  • Taking Centre Stage: Plutarch and Shakespeare /
  • Miryana Dimitrova
  • Enlightenment and the Modern Age
  • Plutarch from Voltaire to Stendhal /
  • Francesco Manzini
  • Plutarch and Goethe /
  • Paul Bishop
  • Plutarch and Adamantios Koraes /
  • Sophia Xenophontos
  • Plutarch and the Victorians /
  • Isobel Hurst
  • Plutarch and Cavafy /
  • David Ricks
  • Plutarch in American Literature: Emerson and Other Authors /
  • Frieda Klotz
  • Plutarch's Fortune in Spain /
  • Aurelio Pérez Jiménez
  • A Sage and a Kibbutznik: Plutarch in Modern Hebrew Literature and Culture /
  • Eran Almagor
  • Back Matter
  • Index Rerum et Nominum
  • Index Locorum.