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Title The philosopher's banquet : Plutarch's Table talk in the intellectual culture of the Roman Empire / edited by Frieda Klotz and Katerina Olkonomopoulou
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 278 pages)
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. TRADITIONS -- 1. Plutarch�s Table Talk: Sampling a Rich Blend: A Survey of Scholarly Appraisal -- 2. The Miscellany and Plutarch -- PART II. TOPICS AND THEMES -- 3. Philosophy in Plutarch�s Table Talk: In Jest or in Earnest? -- 4. Peripatetic Knowledge in Plutarch�s Table Talk -- 5. Symposium, Physical and Social Health in Plutarch�s Table Talk -- PART III. VOICE AND AUTHORITY -- 6. Imagining the Past: Plutarch�s Play with Time
7. Self-Promotion and Self-Effacement in Plutarch�s Table TalkPART IV. CONTRADICTIONS -- 8. Putting the -viv- into �Convivial�: The Table Talk and the Lives -- Conclusion: Reading (from) the Table Talk in Aulus Gellius� Attic Nights -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Summary A collection of essays on 'Plutarch's Table Talk', an influential Greek prose text which is a combination of philosophical dialogue and miscellany. The contributors offer a range of methodologically innovative and sophisticated readings of the work's literary form, themes, and cultural background
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Plutarch. Quaestiones convivales. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85354933
Quaestiones convivales (Plutarch) fast (OCoLC)fst01367049
Quaestiones convivales. swd
Subject Philosophy -- Early works to 1800
Table-talk -- History -- To 1500
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Philosophy.
Table-talk.
Genre/Form Early works.
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Klotz, Frieda, 1977-
Oikonomopoulou, Aikaterini, 1977-
ISBN 9780191618284
0191618284
9780191728907
019172890X