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Plutarch's Prism

, 2022
Throughout the early modern period, political theorists in France and England drew on the works of Plutarch to offer advice to kings and princes. Elizabeth I herself translated Plutarch in her later years, while Jacques Amyot's famous translations of ...
Rebecca Kingston
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Plutarch

The Classical World, 2003
It is widely accepted that the current Internet architecture is insufficient for the future: problems such as address space scarcity, mobility and non-universal connectivity are already with us, and stand to be exacerbated by the explosion of wireless, ad-hoc and sensor networks. Furthermore, it is far from clear that the ubiquitous use of
Rebecca R. Benefiel, Robert Lamberton
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Marrying Stoicism with Platonism? Pseudo-Plutarch's Use of the Circe Episode

American Journal of Philology, 2020
:The present paper discusses the account of Circe that was put forward by an unknown author in the treatise De Homero. When analyzing how the enchantress transmogrifies from an allegory of pleasure into an allegory of metempsychosis, this article shows ...
M. Domaradzki
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Plutarch and the "Malicious" Historian

Illinois Classical Studies, 2020
:This article shows that Plutarch's principles of historical criticism in On the Malice of Herodotus do not always obtain in the Lives, and that Plutarch's narrative techniques in his biographies prove to be vulnerable to the criticisms that Plutarch ...
Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou
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Plutarch

2015
Sophia Xenophontos
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Plutarch

2023
Abstract Plutarch sets out to do justice to Plato’s philosophy as a whole, its doctrines as well as its skeptical aspect, but also to defend it from its critics and rivals, Epicureans and Stoics. Plutarch’s Platonic exegesis relies mainly on the Timaeus, which he interprets literally, maintaining that the world has come about from two ...
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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plutarch

, 2019
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.
Sophia A. Xenophontos, Katerina Oikonomopoulou   +1 more
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The Character of Tradition in Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus

American Journal of Philology, 2019
:This article considers some of the literary-critical and rhetorical premises that inform Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus, including various Platonic and Aristotelian notions behind Plutarch's attack on Herodotus' purposes and character.
N. Kirkland
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Plutarch’s Theory of Cosmological Powers in the De Iside et Osiride

Apeiron, 2016
F. Petrucci
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Plutarch's Rhythmic Prose

Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018
Greek literature is divided, like many literatures, into poetry and prose; but in the earlier Roman Empire, 31 BC to AD 300, much Greek (and Latin) prose was written in one organized rhythmic system.
G. Hutchinson
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