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The present book Frederick E. 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.

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Author:   Frederick E Brenk ,  Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.690kg
ISBN:  

9789004348769

ISBN 10:   900434876
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   27 July 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations Introduction to Frederick Brenk on Plutarch, Religious Thinker and Biographer Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta An Imperial Heritage: The Religious Spirit of Plutarch of Chaironeia, by F.E. Brenk Introduction 1 Life 2 The Development of Plutarch's Religious Ideas, and His Religious Works 3 Plutarch's Idea of God in the Light of Alexandrian Middle Platonism 4 Plutarch's Daimonology 5 De Iside et Osiride: Allegorical Interpretation and Syncretism 6 Plutarch and the Stoics 7 Religion in the Lives: Daimon and Tyche 8 Omens and Portents 9 Dreams 10 Divine Retribution 11 Delphi 12 The Mythological Lives and Roman Religion Plutarch's Life Markos Antonios: A Literary and Cultural Study, by F.E. Brenk 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 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 Battles 6 From Battle to Banquet to Boudoir 7 Inimitable Livers and Inseparable in Death 3 Narrative 1 Time 2 The Unified Plot 3 The Episodic Plot 4 Point of View 4 Some Aspects of Style 1 The Flight of Themistokles 2 Escaping the Ships of Libo 3 The Battle of Actium 4 The Pageantry: Antonius' Debauchery, His Arrival at Ephesos, Kleopatra's Arrival at Tarsos Bibliography Index of Authors and Texts Cited Index of Historical Persons Index of Subjects Index of Technical Terms Index of Modern Authors

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Frederick Brenk, PhD (1971), University of Kentucky, is Professor Ordinarius Emeritus Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome. He has published extensively on Plutarch during the last four decades. Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, Dr. Litt. (1997) and Dr Theologiae (2004), is Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity.

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