Frederick E. Brenk on Plutarch, Religious Thinker and Biographer

“The Religious Spirit of Plutarch of Chaironeia” and “The Life of Mark Antony”

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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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Front Matter
著者: Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
页码: i–viii
Introduction
著者: Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
页码: 7–9
Life
著者: Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
页码: 10–16
Plutarch’s Daimonology
著者: Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
页码: 43–65
Plutarch and the Stoics
著者: Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
页码: 78–80
Religion in the Lives: Daimon and Tyche
著者: Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
页码: 81–95
Omens and Portents
著者: Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
页码: 96–102
Dreams
著者: Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
页码: 103–109
Divine Retribution
著者: Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
页码: 110–113
Delphi
著者: Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
页码: 114–120
The Mythological Lives and Roman Religion
著者: Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
页码: 121–129
The Neronian Background to the Life
著者: Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
页码: 133–166
Antonius and Demetrios
著者: Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
页码: 167–199
Narrative
著者: Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
页码: 200–228
Some Aspects of Style
著者: Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
页码: 229–266
Bibliography
著者: Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
页码: 267–312
Indexes
著者: Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
页码: 313–344
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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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
All interested in ancient History, Classics, Philosophy, ancient Biography.
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