Plutarch and his Intellectual World: Essays on Plutarch.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Rubbed jacket with price tag on the back, annotation on endpaper, otherwise very good and clean. / Beriebener Umschlag mit Preisschild auf der R�ckseite, Anmerkung auf Vorsatzblatt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - CONTENTS: Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Hadrian, Favorinus, and Plutarch, Ewen Bowie (Corpus Christi College, Oxford) -- 2. Favorinus versus Epictetus on the philosophical heritage of Plutarch. A debate on epistemology, Jan Opsomer (Catholic University of Leuven) -- 3. Thyrsus-bearer of the Academy or enthusiast for Plato? Plutarch�s de Stoicorum repugnantiis, George Boys-Stones (St John�s College, Oxford) -- 4. Family and the formation of character in Plutarch, Francesca Albini (University College London) -- 5. From Olympias to Aretaphila: women in politics in Plutarch, Karin Blomqvist (University of Lund) -- 6. Plutarch, Amatorius 13-18, Donald Russell (St John�s College, Oxford) -- 7. Health and politics in Plutarch�s de tuenda sanitate praecepta, Luigi Senzasono (Rome) -- 8. Plutarch�s Dinner of the Seven Wise Men and its place in symposion literature, Judith Mossman (Trinity College, Dublin) -- 9. Plutarch, Brutus and Brutus� Greek and Latin letters, John Moles (University of Durham) -- 10. Moral ambiguity in Plutarch�s Lysander-Sulla, Tim Duff (University of Reading) -- 11. Severed heads: individual portraits and irrational forces in Plutarch�s Galba and Otho, Rhiannon Ash (St Hugh�s College, Oxford) -- 12. Plutarch on Caesar�s fall, Christopher Pelting (University College, Oxford) -- 13. Plutarch and the end of history, John Dillon (Trinity College, Dublin) -- Index of Passages -- General Index. - Plutarch�s writings, for long treated in a fragmentary way as a source for earlier periods, are now increasingly studied in their own right. The thirteen original essays in this volume range over Plutarch�s relations with his contemporaries and his engagement in philosophical debate, his views on social issues such as education and gender, his modes of expression and his construction of argument. Also treated here are Plutarch�s understanding and use of his antecedents, literary and historical, and the sophisticated techniques with which he conveyed his own historical vision. It is a theme of the present book that the writings of Plutarch should be seen as the product of a single, extraordinarily capacious, intelligence. - Judith Mossman, the editor of this volume, convened the conference of the International Plutarch Society in Dublin in 1994. She is also the author of Wild Justice: A Study of Euripides� Hecuba (OUP, 1995). Dr Mossman lectures at Trinity College, Dublin. ISBN 9780715627785