| 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 |
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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
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Quaestiones convivales (Plutarch) fast (OCoLC)fst01367049 |
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Quaestiones convivales. swd |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- Early works to 1800
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Table-talk -- History -- To 1500
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Philosophy.
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Table-talk.
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| Genre/Form |
Early works.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Klotz, Frieda, 1977-
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Oikonomopoulou, Aikaterini, 1977-
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| ISBN |
9780191618284 |
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0191618284 |
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9780191728907 |
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019172890X |
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