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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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This article summarizes (and properly arranges) the biographical information supplied by Plutarch about his wife in the Consolatio uxoris and his other works. It begins with the certain or very probable data, i.e. her na...
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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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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 t...
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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 Menan...
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The volume collects 27 papers written between 2003 and 2022, which have appeared in different publications (such as Proceedings of International Conferences, Collections in Honor of several scholars, and journals of clas...
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Written in Spanish for a Chilean conference, the paper offers an analysis of, and a commentary on some passages from the Life of Romulus, in order to show that Plutarch too – as Dionysius of Halicarnassus, but in a less ...
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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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Chapter Traduzioni e riusi del «Grillo» di Plutarco nel Rinascimento fiorentino: Machiavelli e GelliPlutarch’s works were well known in the Florentine Renaissance, and were translated into Italian many times. The mythical dialogue Gryllus was highly appreciated and imitated. Machiavelli, the famous writer, repeatedly r...
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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 ra...