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Plutarch: Volume 47
Av Geert Roskam
Häftad, 2021
270 kr
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Plutarch of Chaeronea is one of the most influential and fascinating authors of antiquity. His Parallel Lives and Moralia are storehouses of challenging questions, valuable insights and interesting observations. Moreover, they contain a wealth of quotations from and references to earlier writers …
Utopias in Ancient Thought
Av Geert Roskam, Jan Opsomer m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
1939 kr
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This collection deals with utopias in the Greek and Roman worlds. Plato is the first and foremost name that comes to mind and, accordingly, 3 chapters (J. Annas; D. El Murr; A. Hazistavrou) are devoted to his various approaches to utopia in the Republic, Timaeus and Laws. But this volume''s central …
Utopias in Ancient Thought
Av Geert Roskam, Jan Opsomer m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
1939 kr
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This collection deals with utopias in the Greek and Roman worlds. Plato is the first and foremost name that comes to mind and, accordingly, 3 chapters (J. Annas; D. El Murr; A. Hazistavrou) are devoted to his various approaches to utopia in the Republic, Timaeus and Laws. But this volume''s central …
Utopias in Ancient Thought
Av Pierre Destrée, Jan Opsomer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1864 kr
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This collection deals with utopias in the Greek and Roman worlds. Plato is the first and foremost name that comes to mind and, accordingly, 3 chapters (J. Annas; D. El Murr; A. Hazistavrou) are devoted to his various approaches to utopia in the Republic, Timaeus and Laws. But this volume's central …
Light on Creation
Ancient Commentators in Dialogue and Debate on the Origin of the World
Av Joseph Verheyden, Geert Roskam
Häftad, 2017
1980 kr
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Der vorliegende Band enthält die Ergebnisse eines internationalen Kolloquiums, welches im Februar 2015 an der geisteswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der KU Leuven abgehalten wurden und Experten in (spät)antiker Philosophie und frühchristlichen Studien zusammenbrachte. Die Beiträger wurden gebeten, über …
From Protology to Eschatology
Competing Views on the Origin and the End of the Cosmos in Platonism and Christian Thought
Av Joseph Verheyden, Geert Roskam m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
1347 kr
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Wie haben griechische philosophische und frühchristliche Tradition über den Ursprung und das Ziel des Kosmos reflektiert und über die Antworten, die in den jeweiligen Traditionskreisen gegeben wurden? Die Aufsätze in diesem Band zeigen, dass die griechische philosophische und die frühchristliche …
Live unnoticed
On the Vicissitudes of an Epicurean doctrine
Av Geert Roskam
Inbunden, 2007
2475 kr
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Against the background of age-old Greek wisdom, Epicurus' advice to 'live unnoticed' (lathe biosas) was particularly provocative and scandalous. Why, after all, would an unknown Greek soldier in Agamemnon's army have been happier than famous Achilles? Or why should an ordinary Athenian be regarded …
On the Path to Virtue
The Stoic Doctrine of Moral Progress and Its Reception in (Middle-) Platonism
Av Geert Roskam
Inbunden, 2005
884 kr
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In the first part about the specific Stoic doctrine on moral progress (prokope) attention is first given to the subtle view developed by the early Stoics, who categorically denied the existence of any mean between vice and virtue, and yet succeeded in giving moral progress a logical and meaningful …
Versatile Gentleman
Consistency in Plutarch's Writing
Av Jan Opsomer, Geert Roskam m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1036 kr
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Plutarch was a brilliant Platonist, an erudite historian, a gifted author of highly polished literary dialogues, a priest of Apollo at Delphi, and a devoted politician in his hometown Chaeronea. He felt confident in the most technical and specialized discussions, yet was not afraid of rhetorical …
Commentary on Plutarch's "De latenter vivendo"
Av Geert Roskam
Häftad, 2007
427 kr
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Plutarch's De latenter vivendo is the only extant work from Antiquity in which Epicurus' famous ideal of an 'unnoticed life' (lathe biosas) is thematised as such. Moreover, the short rhetorical work provides a lot of interesting information about Plutarch's polemical strategies and about his own …
Plutarch's "Maxime cum principibus philosopho esse disserendum"
An Interpretation with Commentary
Av Geert Roskam
Inbunden, 2009
620 kr
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The question of the political relevance of philosophy, and of the role which the philosopher should play in the government of his state, was often discussed in Antiquity. Plato’s ideal of the philosopher-king is well-known, but was precisely his failure to realise his political ideal in Syracuse …
Virtues for the People
Aspects of Plutarchan Ethics
Av Geert Roskam, Luc Van der Stockt
Inbunden, 2011
830 kr
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Plutarch of Chaeronea, Platonist, polymath, and prolific writer, was by no means an armchair philosopher. He believed in the necessity for a philosopher to affect the lives of his fellow citizens. That urge inspired many of his writings to meet what he considered people's true needs. Although these …
