A commentary on plutarch"s de latenter vivendo - G. Roskam
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Plutarch’s De latenter vivendo 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 others authors) that cast a new light on the text.
Geert Roskam obtained in 2001 a PhD in Classics at the Katholieke Universiteit ...
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 others authors) that cast a new light on the text.
Geert Roskam obtained in 2001 a PhD in Classics at the Katholieke Universiteit ...
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2007 Uitgever: Universitaire Pers Leuven Reeks: Plutarchea Hypomnemata 279 paginas Taal: Engels Grootte: 240x160x20 ISBN-10: 905867603X ISBN-13: 9789058676030Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2007. 279p. Paperback. 'Plutarch's anti-Epicurean works are full of what might take to be simplifications or caricatures of his opponents' views. They are nevertheless important and interesting philosophical works showing the interaction between Platonism of this period and other schools. Roskam's 'Commentary' gives a close reading of the 'De latenter vivendo' showing its thematic unity and the various styles of argumentative and rhetorical moves it contains. It also offers...
