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(2025)In the QC we encounter three relatives of Plutarch’s indicated as his gambroi: Craton, Firmus, and Patrocleas. A long (and patient) survey on translations and commentaries show how difficult it is to determine their affinity ...
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(2025)In QC 3.6, criticizing Epicurus’ opinion on love, Plutarch quotes Menander as a great expert on love affairs. In particular, he quotes the beginning lines of the Misoumenos (also mentioned in his Life of Sulla). Besides, ...
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(2025)Written in English because dedicated to Frederick E. Brenk, S.J., the paper once again addresses the textual problem of fr. 134 S. (from the lost work Perì Érotos, On Love), where Plutarch quotes a long fragment of Menander. ...
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(2025)At Thes. 17 Plutarch states that, according to Simonides, Theseus’ ship was steered by the Trojan Phereclus, and in case of success it was to raise not a white sail, but a purple one, colored with the dye obtained from the ...
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(2025)The incident involving Empona took place in the years 70 to 79 CE. The story was narrated by Plutarch just after his own marriage (i.e., around 70 CE), but is reported by his son Autoboulus. A reference is made to Domitian’s ...
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(2025)This paper was written in Spanish for a conference in Seville. Plutarch, Table Talks 3.6 is an important source of information about what Epicurus, in his Symposion, as well as the Stoic Zeno and the Pythagorean Clinias ...
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(2025)The dialogue lacks a section on justice – one of the four virtues according to Plato and Aristotle (justice, fortitude, prudence and temperance). Several scholars believe the work to be incomplete, with the final part being ...
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(2025)The Life of Theseus offers numerous literary quotations, but only some are meant as rhetorical decoration: many function as source and testimony for Theseus’ adventures. Plutarch is careful in making a distinction between ...
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(2025)At the very beginning of the Cons. ux., we gather that the messenger sent by Plutarch’s wife, to tell him about their child’s death, went first to Tanagra and then left for Athens, expecting to meet Plutarch on the way. ...
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(2025)Plutarch’s work Beasts are rational is a fictitious dialogue linked with Circe’s episode in the Odyssey. It contains a lively discussion between Odysseus and a (speaking) pig named Gryllus, who prefers to be an animal ...
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(2025)The Plutarchean dialogue Gryllus is set at the time of the 12th book of the Odyssey: the hero is leaving Circe and asks if there are any Greeks wishing to return to their homeland. Here Odysseus is portrayed in generous ...
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(2025)The correct interpretation of the first chapters of the Consolatio uxoris allows to ascertain that Plutarch’s wife had first a miscarriage, then four sons (one of whom, named Chaeron, died as a child), and finally a daughter ...
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(2025)Plutarch severely criticizes the opinion on fortune held by both the Stoics and the Epicureans, and – while referring to both positions as ideological extremes – repeatedly hints at the Tyche seen as a force operating in ...
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(2025)This paper was written in French for a conference in Paris. Plutarch’s quotations from Me¬nander are very numerous: a com¬plete scan reveals their importance and the spiritual affinities between the two writers. Philological ...
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(2025)This paper was written in English for a conference in Leuven. Problems 3, 4, and 5 of the III book of QC resume the discussions that arose during one and the same sym¬posium. The 3rd question, raised by Florus (why women ...
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(2025)Though the Quaestiones Convivales may be considered a ‘minor work’, they nevertheless contain no less than nine books, in which Plutarch, following in the wake of Plato, Xenophon and others, collected in written form the ...
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(2025)This chapter looks at the serendipitous encounter between the surgeon Leonardo Fioravanti (1517-1588) and the magus Giambattista Della Porta (1535-1615) as a mirror reflecting a distinctively Renaissance phenomenon, one ...
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(2025)Giovan Battista Della Porta was the main promoter of the idea of “natural magic” in the sixteenth century. This chapter aims to analyse his approach through the prism of illusionism. Based on an archaeology of Della Porta’s ...
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(2025)Given the encyclopedic nature of Giovanni Battista Della Porta’s Natural Magick, it may seem surprising that the volume devotes so little attention to sound, a field explored at length by other natural philosophers of the ...
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(2025)This chapter deals with a curious phenomenon of cultural appropriation and assimilation of Giovan Battista Della Porta’s Magia naturalis in the new context of English experimental philosophy. In the second part of the ...
