Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, Ph.D. in Classics (1997) and in Theology (2004) is Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Studies at the University of Groningen. He has published extensively on classics, ancient history and philosophy, and Early Christianity. He is the author a.o. of La envidia en el pensamiento griego (Madrid 1997) and Acta Andreae Apocrypha. A New Perspective on the Nature, Intention and Significance of the Primitive Text (Geneva 2007).Israel Muñoz Gallarte, PhD in Classics (2006) is Assistant Profesor of Classics at the University of Córdoba. He publishes on classics, Plutarch, Early Christian Apocrypha, and Semantics. He is the author of Los sustantivos-Hecho en el Nuevo Testamento (Madrid 2008) and co-author of Cuenca capta: los libros griegos del s. XVI en el Seminario Conciliar de San Julián (Cuenca 2010).Contributors: A.P. Bos, F. Becchi, Raúl Caballero, F. Brenk, G. Roskam, M. Meeusen, A. Jiménez, L. Roig Lanzillotta, A. Casanova, A. Pérez Jiménez, P. Volpe Cacciatore, D. Leao, R. Scannapieco, G. van Kooten, I. Muñoz Gallarte.

"À tous les points de vue, la vaste majorité des propositions sont de qualité et ouvrent sur de nouvelles perspectives. De ce point de vue, l’ouvrage atteint son objectif initial, celui d’éclairer le contexte culturel des premiers siècles." - Xavier Brouillette, in: BMCR 2013.08.29"Der Band ist sorgfältig präsentiert und fügt der Diskussion um das Verhältnis von Religion und Philosophie bei Plutarch einige wichtige Aspekte hinzu. (...) Der Band sollte in keiner Bibliothek fehlen, die sich mit kaiserzeitlicher Literatur, Philosophie und Religion beschäftigt." - Rainer Hirsch-Luipold, in: sehepunkte 14 (2014), Nr. 1 (15.01.2014)"(...) The volume offers many fine-tuned insights as well as a sense of Plutarch's own breadth and depth." - Jane Heath, in: The Expository Times 126, Nr. 10 (July 2015)

• IntroductionI. Plutarch and Philosophy1.Plutarch on the Sleeping Soul and the Waking Intellect and Aristotle’s Double Entelechy ConceptAbraham P. Bos2.The Doctrine Of The Passions: Plutarch, Posidonius And GalenFrancesco Becchi3.The Adventitious Motion of the Soul (Plut., Stoic. rep. 23, 1045 B-F) and the Controversy between Aristo of Chios and the Middle AcademyRaúl Caballero4.Plutarch and “Pagan Monotheism”Frederick Brenk 5.Socrates and Alcibiades: a notorious σκάνδαλον in the later Platonist traditionGeert Roskam6.Salt in the holy water Plutarch’s Quaestiones Naturales in Michael Psellus’ De omnifaria doctrinaMichiel MeeusenII. Plutarch and Religion7.Iacchus In PlutarchAna Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal8.Plutarch’s Idea of God in the Religious and Philosophical Context of Late AntiquityLautaro Roig Lanzillotta9.Plutarch as Apollo’s priest at DelphiAngelo Casanova10.Plutarch’s Attitude Towards Astral BiologyAurelio Pérez Jiménez11.“Cicalata sul fascino volgarmente detto jettatura”: Plutarch, quaestio convivalis 5.7Paola Volpe Cacciatore12.The Eleusinian Mysteries and political timing in the Life of AlcibiadesDelfim F. Leão13.Μυστηριῶδης θεολογία: Plutarch's fr. 157 Sandbach between cultual traditions and philosophical modelsRosario Scannapieco14.A non-fideistic interpretation of ‘pistis’ in Plutarch’s Writings: The harmony between ‘pistis’ and knowledgeGeorge van Kooten15.The colors of the soulsIsrael Muñoz GallarteIndex