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Author Brenk, Frederick E., author.

Title Frederick Brenk on Plutarch, religious thinker and biographer : "The religious spirit of Plutarch of Chaironeia" and "The Life of Mark Antony" / edited by Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, with the collaboration of Luisa Lesage.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Brill's Plutarch Studies, 2451-8328 ; volume 1
Brill's Plutarch studies ; v. 1.
Summary "The present book Frederick Brenk: Plutarch, Religious Thinker and Biographer, "The Religious Spirit of Plutarch of Chaironeia" and "The Life of Mark Antony" includes the updated and revised version of two seminal articles on Plutarch by F. E. Brenk published thirty years ago in ANRW. Edited by Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, both articles cover the two sides of Plutarch's corpus, the Lives and Moralia."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Contents; Abbreviations of Journals and Series; Introduction to Frederick E. Brenk on Plutarch, Religious Thinker and Biographer; Part 1. The Religious Spirit of Plutarch of Chaironeia; Introduction; Chapter 1. Life; Chapter 2. The Development of Plutarch's Religious Ideas, and His Religious Works; Chapter 3. Plutarch's Idea of God in the Light of Alexandrian Middle Platonism; Chapter 4. Plutarch's Daimonology; Chapter 5. De Iside et Osiride: Allegorical Interpretation and Syncretism; Chapter 6. Plutarch and the Stoics; Chapter 7. Religion in the Lives: Daimon and Tyche
Chapter 8. Omens and PortentsChapter 9. Dreams; Chapter 10. Divine Retribution; Chapter 11. Delphi; Chapter 12. The Mythological Lives and Roman Religion; Part 2. The Life of Mark Antony: A Literary and Cultural Study; Chapter 1. The Neronian Background to the Life; 1. The Nerogonia of the Antonios; 2. Plutarch and the Rex Turned Rana; 3. Nero and Antonius Omestes; 4. Vice Inherited: The Rotten Tree; Chapter 2. Antonius and Demetrios; 1. Biographical Platonism and the Chance of Living Again; 2. Parallels in Vice; 3. Parallels in Assimilations; 4. Treading the Same Ground
5. Fighting the Same Battles6. From Battle to Banquet and Boudoir; 7. Inimitable Livers and Inseparable in Death; Chapter 3. Narrative; 1. Time; 2. The Unified Plot; 3. The Episodic Plot; 4. Point of View; Chapter 4. Some Aspects of Style; 1. The Flight of Themistokles; 2. Escaping the Ships of Libo; 3. The Battle of Actium; 4. The Pageantry: Antony's Debauchery, His Arrival at Ephesos, Kleopatra's Arrival at Tarsos; Bibliography; Index of Authors and Texts Cited; Index of Historical Persons; Index of Subjects
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Subject Plutarch. Antonius.
Plutarch. Lives.
Plutarch. Moralia.
Lives (Plutarch)
Moralia (Plutarch)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Roig Lanzillotta, Lautaro, editor.
Lesage, Luisa, contributor.
Added Title Essays. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2017033026
Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt.
Other Form: Print version: Brenk, Frederick E., author. Frederick Brenk on Plutarch, religious thinker and biographer Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004348769 (DLC) 2017016212
ISBN 9789004348776 (electronic book)
9004348778 (electronic book)
9789004348769 (hardback) (alkaline paper)
900434876X
Standard No. 10.1163/9789004348776