Dealing with the nature and function of the moon from multiple perspectives, this treatise offers a comprehensive overview of scientific knowledge and religious-philosophical thought from the first centuries CE. The difficulty of Plutarch's ...
The contributions in this volume explore various ways of how to do it.
The essays included in Plutarch's Religious Landscapes offer a glance into these views.
"The volume puts into the spotlight overlaps and points of intersection between Plutarch and other writers of the imperial period.
This book examines passages in Plutarch's works that foil expectations and whose silence invites closer examination.
And yet this is the first book not only to examine Plutarch's consistent and coherent use of this imagery but also to argue that it is systematically employed to describe, explore, and evaluate politics in action.
The Dynamics of Intertextuality in Plutarch explores the numerous aspects and functions of intertextual links both within the Plutarchan corpus itself (intratextuality) and in relation with other authors, works, genres or discourses of ...
In Plutarch's Moon Luisa Lesage Gárriga offers a new approach on Plutarch's views on cosmos, the afterlife and salvation, and highlights the literary unit of one of his most fascinating treatises.
The act of recording anything is at the same time an act of silencing. Choices are made at every step about what to keep and what to discard.
In Plutarch’s Moon Luisa Lesage Gárriga offers a new approach on Plutarch’s views on cosmos, the afterlife and salvation, focusing on one of his most fascinating treatises.