A commentary on Plutarch's De latenter vivendo
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Word Count
69,750 words, Guess
Page Count
279 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecommentaryonplut0000rosk
- ISBN-10905867603X
- ISBN-139789058676030
- Library of Congress Control Number2008351547
- OCLC Control Number180753577
and 2 more
- Better World Books9789058676030
- Open LibraryOL23667293M
Classifications
- LCCPA4368.D49 R67 2007
- LCCPA4368.D49R67 2007
- LCCBJ214.P8 R67 2007
Description
"Plutarch's De latenter uiuendo 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 philosophical convictions in the domains of ethics, politics, metaphysics, and eschatology." "In this book, Plutarch's anti-Epicurean polemic is understood against the background of the previous philosophical tradition. An examination of Epicurus' own position is followed by a discussion of Plutarch's polemical predecessors (Timocrates, Cicero, the early Stoics, and Seneca) and contemporaries (Epictetus), and by a systematical and detailed analysis of Plutarch's own arguments. The lemmatic commentary offers additional information and parallel passages (both from Plutarch's own works and from other authors) that cast a new light on the text."--Jacket.
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