Brill's companion to the reception of Plutarch / edited by Sophia Xenophontos, Katerina Oikonomopoulou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Xenophontos, Sophia A., 1985- editor.

Oikonomopoulou, Aikaterini, 1977- editor.

Series:

Brill's companions to classical reception ; Volume 20.

Brill's companions to classical reception ; Volume 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plutarch--Criticism and interpretation.

Plutarch.

History, Ancient--Historiography.

History, Ancient.

Civilization, Classical--Influence.

Civilization, Classical.

Art appreciation.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

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’s rich reception history from the Roman Imperial period through Late Antiquity and Byzantium to the Renaissance, Enlightenment and the modern era. The thirty-seven chapters that make up this volume, written by a remarkable line-up of experts, explore the appreciation, contestation and creative appropriation of Plutarch himself, his thought and work in the history of literature across various cultures and intellectual traditions in Europe, America, North Africa, and the Middle East.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9789004280403

9004280405

OCLC:

1128158287

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004409446 DOI