Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plutarch

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-28040-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 696 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1128 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Oikonomopoulou, Katerina

Xenophontos, Sophia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Table of Latin Abbreviations of Titles of Plutarch’s Moralia with English
Translation

Notes on Editors and Contributors

Note to the Reader

Introduction

Katerina Oikonomopoulou and Sophia Xenophontos

part 1: The Early Fame

1 Plutarch in Macrobius and Athenaeus

Maria Vamvouri Ruffy

2 Plutarch in Gellius and Apuleius

Katerina Oikonomopoulou

3 Plutarch’s Reception in Imperial Graeco-Roman Philosophy

Mauro Bonazzi

4 Plutarch and Atticism: Herodian, Phrynichus, Philostratus

Katarzyna Jazdzewska

5 Plutarch and the Papyrological Evidence

Thomas Schmidt

part 2: Late Antiquity and Byzantium

6 Plutarch and Early Christian Theologians

Arkadiy Avdokhin

7 Plutarch in Christian Apologetics (Eusebius, Cyril, Theodoretus)

Sébastien Morlet

8 Plutarch and the Neoplatonists: Porphyry, Proclus, Simplicius

Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

10 On Donkeys, Weasels and New-Born Babies, or What Damascius Learned from Plutarch

Geert Roskam

11 Plutarch in Stobaeos

Michele Curnis

12 The Reception of Plutarch in Constantinople in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries

András Németh

13 The Reception of Plutarch in Michael Psellos’ Philosophical, Theological and Rhetorical Works: an Elective Affinity

Eudoxia Delli

14 Plutarch in Michael Psellos’ Chronographia

Diether Roderich Reinsch

15 Plutarch and Zonaras: from Biography to a Chronicle with a Political Leaning

Theofili Kampianaki

16 Plutarch in Twelfth-Century Learned Culture

Michael Grünbart

17 Precepts, Paradigms and Evaluations: Niketas Choniates’ Use of Plutarch

Alicia Simpson

18 Maximos Planoudes and the Transmission of Plutarch’s Moralia

Inmaculada Pérez Martín

19 Plutarch and Theodore Metochites

Sophia Xenophontos

20 Plutarch’s Reception in the Work of Nikephoros Xanthopoulos

Stephanos Efthymiadis

21 Plutarch and Late Byzantine Intellectuals (c. 1350–1460)

Florin Leonte

part 3: Other Medieval Cultures

22 Plutarch in the Syriac Tradition: a Preliminary Overview

Alberto Rigolio

23 Para-Plutarchan Traditions in the Medieval Islamicate World

Aileen Das and Pauline Koetschet

part 4: Renaissance

24 Leonardo Bruni and Plutarch

Marianne Pade

25 Plutarch and Poliziano

Fabio Stok

26 Plutarch’s French Translation by Amyot

Françoise Frazier and Olivier Guerrier

27 The First Editions of Plutarch’s Works, and the Translation by Thomas North

Michele Lucchesi

28 Humanist Latin Translations of the Moralia

Francesco Becchi

29 Plutarch and Montaigne

Christopher Edelman

30 Taking Centre Stage: Plutarch and Shakespeare

Miryana Dimitrova

part 5: Enlightenment and the Modern Age

31 Plutarch from Voltaire to Stendhal

Francesco Manzini

32 Plutarch and Goethe

Paul Bishop

33 Plutarch and Adamantios Koraes

Sophia Xenophontos

34 Plutarch and the Victorians

Isobel Hurst

35 Plutarch and Cavafy

David Ricks

36 Plutarch in American Literature: Emerson and Other Authors

Frieda Klotz

37 Plutarch’s Fortune in Spain

Aurelio Pérez Jiménez

38 A Sage and a Kibbutznik: Plutarch in Modern Hebrew Literature and Culture

Eran Almagor

Index Rerum et Nominum

Index Locorum

Über Autor(innen)

Sophia Xenophontos, DPhil (2011) Oxford, is a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests are in the Greek literature, philosophy and culture of the Roman Imperial period. She is the author of Ethical education in Plutarch: moralising agents and contexts (Berlin-Boston 2016) and of several articles and book chapters on practical ethics and the therapy of the emotions in post-Hellenistic philosophical writings. Another strand of her research is the reception of the Greek ethical tradition (especially Plutarch and Aristotle) in late Byzantium and the Enlightenment. Her current book project is on Galen’s works of popular philosophy and their interplay with his medical theory and practice. She is also preparing the editio princeps for George Pachymeres’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.

Katerina Oikonomopoulou, DPhil (2007) Oxford, is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Patras. Her research focuses on Graeco-Roman imperial literature and culture, especially on miscellanistic and encyclopaedic writing, science, medicine and the symposium. Her publications include numerous article-length studies in the above topics and the co-edited volumes The Philosopher’s Banquet: Plutarch’s Table Talk in the Intellectual Culture of the Roman Empire (with Frieda Klotz, OUP 2011) and Space, Time and Language in Plutarch (with Aristoula Georgiadou, De Gruyter 2017).

Contributors are: Eran Almagor, Arkadiy Avdokhin, Francesco Becchi, Paul Bishop, Mauro Bonazzi, Michele Curnis, Aileen Das, Eudoxia Delli, Miryana Dimitrova, Christopher Edelman, Stephanos Efthymiadis, † Françoise Frazier, Michael Grünbart, Olivier Guerrier, Isobel Hurst, Katarzyna Jazdzewska, Theofili Kampianaki, Frieda Klotz, Pauline Koetschet, Florin Leonte, Michele Lucchesi, Francesco Manzini, Sébastien Morlet, András Németh, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Marianne Pade, Aurelio Pérez Jiménez, Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Diether Roderich Reinsch, David Ricks, Alberto Rigolio, Geert Roskam, Thomas Schmidt, Elsa Giovanna Simonetti, Alicia Simpson, Fabio Stok, Maria Vamvouri Ruffy, Sophia Xenophontos