Frederick E. Brenk on Plutarch, Religious Thinker and Biographer: The Religious Spirit of Plutarch of Chaironeia and the Life of Mark Antony
Contents -- Abbreviations of Journals and Series -- Introduction to Frederick E. Brenk on Plutarch, Religious Thinker and Biographer -- Part 1. The Religious Spirit of Plutarch of Chaironeia -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Life -- Chapter 2. The Development of Plutarch's Religious Ideas, a...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden
BRILL
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Series/Journal: | Brill's Plutarch Studies
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| Further subjects: | B
Plutarch.--Antonius
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: E Brenk, Frederick: Frederick E. Brenk on Plutarch, Religious Thinker and Biographer : The Religious Spirit of Plutarch of Chaironeia and the Life of Mark Antony. - Leiden : BRILL,c2017. - 9789004348769 |
| Summary: | Contents -- Abbreviations of Journals and Series -- Introduction to Frederick E. Brenk on Plutarch, Religious Thinker and Biographer -- Part 1. The Religious Spirit of Plutarch of Chaironeia -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Life -- Chapter 2. The Development of Plutarch's Religious Ideas, and His Religious Works -- Chapter 3. Plutarch's Idea of God in the Light of Alexandrian Middle Platonism -- Chapter 4. Plutarch's Daimonology -- Chapter 5. De Iside et Osiride: Allegorical Interpretation and Syncretism -- Chapter 6. Plutarch and the Stoics -- Chapter 7. Religion in the Lives: Daimon and Tyche -- Chapter 8. Omens and Portents -- Chapter 9. Dreams -- Chapter 10. Divine Retribution -- Chapter 11. Delphi -- Chapter 12. The Mythological Lives and Roman Religion -- Part 2. The Life of Mark Antony: A Literary and Cultural Study -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 and Boudoir -- 7. Inimitable Livers and Inseparable in Death -- Chapter 3. Narrative -- 1. Time -- 2. The Unified Plot -- 3. The Episodic Plot -- 4. Point of View -- Chapter 4. Some Aspects of Style -- 1. The Flight of Themistokles -- 2. Escaping the Ships of Libo -- 3. The Battle of Actium -- 4. The Pageantry: Antony's Debauchery, His Arrival at Ephesos, Kleopatra's Arrival at Tarsos -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors and Texts Cited -- Index of Historical Persons -- Index of Subjects. |
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| ISBN: | 9004348778 |