Plutarch's Advice to the bride and groom, and A consolation to his wife : English translations, commentary, interpretive essays, and bibliography /
While perhaps best known for his Lives, Plutarch also wrote philosophical dialogues that constitute a major intellectual legacy from the first century A.D. This collection presents two important short works from his writings in moral philosophy. They reveal Plutarch at his best--informative, sympath...
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| Language: | English Ancient Greek |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Advice to the bride and groom / translated by donald Russell
- Greek text from Plutarchus Moralia, vol. I
- Reflections on Plutarch, Advice to the bride and groom : something old, something new, something borrowed / Sarah B. Pomeroy
- A consolation to his wife / translated by Donald Russell
- Greek text from Plutarchus Moralia, vol. III
- Reflections on Plutarch, A consolation to his wife / Sarah B. Pomeroy
- Plutarch's moral program / Simon Swain
- Advice to the bride and groom : Plutarch gives a detailed account of his views on marriage / Lisette Goessler, translated by Hazel Harvey
- Practicing what you preach : Plutarch's sources and treatment / Richard Hawley
- Plutarch's Advice to the bride and groom : traditional wisdom through a philosophic lens / Cynthia Patterson
- Foreign powers : Plutarch and discourses of domination in Roman Greece / Lin Foxhall
- Gendering virtue / Jo Ann McNamara
- Plutarch on persuasion / Emma J. Stafford
- Philosophos kai Philandros : Plutarch's view of women in the Moralia and Lives / Philip A. Stadter
- Images of childhood : the evidence of Plutarch / Keith Bradley.