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(2025)This paper was written in English for a conference in Madeira. The Consolation to His Wife is a short writing rapidly drafted by Plutarch in the span of a few days around the year 90 AD, in all likelihood at Tanagra, after ...
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(2025)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 name, ...
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(2025)The paper is in English because it is dedicated to Philip Stadter. It offers a brief but philologically conducted demonstration that the dialogue between Odysseus and the sorceress Circe – as well as the heated discussion ...
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(2025)A systematic investigation of his quotations from Euripides reveals Plutarch’s thorough familiarity with many of the Athenian’s plays, which he was able to quote currently, often from memory, sometimes incurring a few minor ...
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(2025)Plutarch’s Life of Theseus is moulded on the pattern of the best-known myths celebrated by Attic tragedy and recorded by the Atthidographers. He sets no store by the outlandish and hardly credible versions appearing in ...
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(2025)Table-talk 3.10 presents a discussion about the influences of the Moon on meat preservation and all the agrarian works, with obvious references to its different phases. In particular, a passage of the text can only be ...
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(2025)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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(2025)Plutarch loves and highly esteems Menander. He quotes him about 50 times (in many cases preserving fragments otherwise unknown). This paper offers a rapid survey, then choosing to dwell on the most important and meaningful ...
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(2025)Written in English because presented at a conference in Groningen, the paper considers the two passages in which Plutarch explicitly refers to his activity as Apollo’s priest at Delphi, in conjunction with two Delphic ...
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(2025)In the QC we encounter three relatives of Plutarch’s indicated as his gambroi: Craton, Firmus, and Patrocleas. A long (and patient) survey on translations and commentaries show how difficult it is to determine their affinity ...
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(2025)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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(2025)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 Menander. ...
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(2025)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 the ...
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(2025)The incident involving Empona took place in the years 70 to 79 CE. The story was narrated by Plutarch just after his own marriage (i.e., around 70 CE), but is reported by his son Autoboulus. A reference is made to Domitian’s ...
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(2025)This paper was written in Spanish for a conference in Seville. Plutarch, Table Talks 3.6 is an important source of information about what Epicurus, in his Symposion, as well as the Stoic Zeno and the Pythagorean Clinias ...
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(2025)The dialogue lacks a section on justice – one of the four virtues according to Plato and Aristotle (justice, fortitude, prudence and temperance). Several scholars believe the work to be incomplete, with the final part being ...
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(2025)The Life of Theseus offers numerous literary quotations, but only some are meant as rhetorical decoration: many function as source and testimony for Theseus’ adventures. Plutarch is careful in making a distinction between ...
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(2025)At the very beginning of the Cons. ux., we gather that the messenger sent by Plutarch’s wife, to tell him about their child’s death, went first to Tanagra and then left for Athens, expecting to meet Plutarch on the way. ...
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(2025)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 ...
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(2025)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 ...
