Search results

1

The Twelfth Congress of The International Plutarch Society: “Plutarch and His Contemporaries: Sharing the Roman Empire” (2–5 September 2021)

100%

Meander

|

2022

2

Plutarch w Semeioseis gnomikai Teodora Metochitesa

94%

Jażdżewska K.

ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal

|

2017

|

vol. 7

|

issue 2

271-282

PL

Plutarch in Semeioseis gnomikai of Theodor Metochites The paper focuses on the reception of Plutarch’s Moralia in Theodore Metochites’ Semeioseis gnomikai. It discusses chapter 71 of Metochites’ work, one of several chapters focused on ancient authors, which is dedicated to Plutarch. Metochites praises Plutarch as a wise man and a philosopher and in particular approves of his character. According to Metochites, Plutarch was not tainted by the usual flaws of intellectuals such as envy and arrogance, but was motivated by a pure love of wisdom and generously acknowledged the achievements of his predecessors. Metochites interprets Plutarch’s erudition, polymathia, as a sign of a noble, high-minded nature, and therefore as evidence of moral virtue.

3

Kleopatra i eros w Żywocie Antoniusza. O nadinterpretacji dzieła Plutarcha

94%

Kostuch L.

ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal

|

2017

|

vol. 7

|

issue 2

259-270

PL

Cleopatra and Eros in Plutarch’s Antonius. On overinterpretation of Plutarch’s work Historians, writers and artists who wanted to pay homage to Cleopatra once again, referred to and still refer to Plutarch’s Life of Antony, first and foremost. It can seem that this main, if not the only ancient work, being quite a compact story about the Egyptian queen, has been ultimately interpreted in numerous review editions and biographies of Cleopatra. However, Plutarch’s Cleopatra has not been analysed as a separate work - excerpts from Life of Antony have always been combined with other sources in order to obtain a single picture. And in belles-lettres, the work of this ancient moralist have been exploited for centuries in such a way that it is no longer Plutarch’s property. Literary works from different epochs, in the form of interpretations, with Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra at the head of the list, have distorted the ancient moralist’s message. It turns out that when we reject Shakespeare’s prism that we usually use when examining Plutarch’s Cleopatra and we start to analyse Antony’s biography only in the context of other works written by the moralist of Chaeronea, considering them to be a peculiar comment on Life of Antony, we are able to see a completely different picture to the one we are used to. Divine powers, present on the pages of the ancient work and implicating gods and people in love and desire do not have access to the queen. However, everything suggests that in the case of “the romance of all time” we can see in the moralist’s work something he did not write at all. We refer to Life of Antony and we envisage the character of Cleopatra described by Shakespeare and his successors.

4

Nannies “Bought” in Laconia: Slaves or Hired? A Note to Plutarch, Lycurgus, 16,5

94%

Paradiso A.

Eirene. Studia Graeca et Latina

|

2013

|

vol. 49

|

issue 1-2

48-53

EN

This contribution deals with the presence in Attica of Spartan nannies, who were highly praised for their qualities and for the method that they practiced. They were either bought or hired. In Life of Lycurgus 16,5, Plutarch states that they were bought, but this seems to contradict what is known of the historical circumstances. We may consider emending the text, depending whether the mistake is a result of corruption in the manuscript tradition or derives from the author himself.

5

Jill E. Marshall, Women Praying and Prophesying in Corinth. Gender and Inspired Speech in First Corinthians (WUNT 2/448 Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2017)

94%

Rambiert-Kwaśniewska A.

The Biblical Annals

|

2018

|

vol. 8

|

issue 4

635-638

EN

Book review Jill E. Marshall, Women Praying and Prophesying in Corinth. Gender and Inspired Speech in First Corinthians (WUNT 2/448 Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2017)

6

O przemianach tradycji antycznej i ich odniesieniu do historyzmu na przykładzie recepcji Plutarcha (z Norwidem w tle)

84%

Junkiert M.

Studia Norwidiana

|

2015

|

vol. 33

109-130

EN

Plutarch, beside Homer, Socrates and Alexander the Great, was one of the important figures in Norwid’s intellectual and artistic biography. Apart from Herodotus he was the main source of Norwid’s knowledge of Greek history and culture. Norwid’s readings are also inscribed in the reception of Plutarch by the French language readers, as he read his works in Amyot’s translation of the beginning of the 19th century that was so important for French literature. The significance of Plutarch for Norwid’s works is particularly well seen when the influence of the Greek historian is considered on writing the poem Epimenides and the drama Cleopatra and Ceasar. Both these works are a proof that he intensively and creatively thought over some of the Parallel Lives, that he treated as sources of historical and cultural knowledge.

7

O przemianach tradycji antycznej i ich odniesieniu do historyzmu na przykładzie recepcji Plutarcha (z Norwidem w tle)

84%

Junkiert M.

Studia Norwidiana

|

2015

|

vol. 33

109-130

EN

Plutarch, beside Homer, Socrates and Alexander the Great, was one of the important figures in Norwid’s intellectual and artistic biography. Apart from Herodotus he was the main source of Norwid’s knowledge of Greek history and culture. Norwid’s readings are also inscribed in the reception of Plutarch by the French language readers, as he read his works in Amyot’s translation of the beginning of the 19th century that was so important for French literature. The significance of Plutarch for Norwid’s works is particularly well seen when the influence of the Greek historian is considered on writing the poem Epimenides and the drama Cleopatra and Ceasar. Both these works are a proof that he intensively and creatively thought over some of the Parallel Lives, that he treated as sources of historical and cultural knowledge.

8

Polemika przeciwko polemice. Plutarcha krytyka epikureizmu

84%

Łapiński K.

ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal

|

2017

|

vol. 7

|

issue 2

211-221

PL

Polemic against polemics. Plutarch’s attacks on Epicureanism Plutarch’s attitude toward Epicurean philosophy is extremely hostile. According to him, at the core of Epicureanism is subversiveness, an attempt to attack the most fundamental components of Greek culture: traditional morality, religious beliefs, educational, and political commitment. Moreover, the Epicureans were the only philosophers in antiquity who openly criticised Socrates, first and foremost for his εἰρωνεία and “unreasonable” death. In the article, the main tenets of Epicureanism, as well as Plutarch’s polemical efforts, are centered around the figure of τετραφάρμα-κος, or the “fourfold remedy”.

9

The Seven Sages on the Issues of Universal Dialogue: A Message to the Contemporary World

83%

Tajsin E.

Dialogue and Universalism

|

2017

|

issue 1

33-42

EN

The Seven Sages (Seven Wise Men) of Plato and Plutarch may well be considered the first symbol of universal dialogue, if not the universal dialogue itself, which seems quite feasible. Not always remaining “seven,” these philosophers who lived in the VII–VI centuries B.C. teach us today the ethics, themes, and goals of the shared general dialogue. Though legendary to a high extent as to the time and locality, their discus-sions, mainly on philosophical issues, serve quite a realistic and useful example of how communicators, each of which comes from different “city-state,” can bring together people of multiple social and cultural traditions.

10

Adesp. 741 K.-A. Some Aspects of Comic Stylistics

83%

Bartol K.

Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae

|

2021

|

vol. 31

|

issue 1

29-34

EN

This article explores the thematic and stylistic function of the anaphora in the anonymous fragment of Old Comedy (741 K.-A.). It also analyses an interpretation of Plutarch’s comment on these lines.

11

Przyjaciel czy pochlebca? Żona jako lustro w „Zaleceniach małżeńskich” Plutarcha (14, 139f–140a)

83%

Sowa J.

Collectanea Philologica

|

2015

|

vol. 18

EN

In chapter 14 of the “Advice to the Bride and Groom” Plutarch recommends a wife should behave like a mirror, faithfully reflecting her husband’s moods and attitudes. In this paper I compare this piece of advice with other mirror-similes which have been related to human beings (as lovers, friends, flatterers, and models to follow) in ancient Greek and Roman literature, especially in Plutarch’s works. I conclude that the ideal Plutarchan wife has been situated, perhaps unintentionally, „between” friend and flatterer, because the mirror-simile in the “Advice…” symbolizes not only the true unity of man and his wife, but also the strict hierarchy amongst them.

12

Ancient philosophy of lovesickness Plutarch, Cleopatra and Eros

83%

Kostuch L.

Społeczeństwo i Edukacja. Międzynarodowe Studia Humanistyczne

|

2014

|

issue 2(14)

5-14

EN

Over the centuries, Cleopatra VII, the famous queen of the Nile, has uttered thousands of amorous sentences in countless dramas, poems, novels, librettos and films. Historians, writers and artists of all periods, selecting the Egyptian monarch as the “hero” of their works, referred, and still continue to do so, primarily to the Life of Antony by a great Greek philosopher and moralist - Plutarch of Chaeronea. It might seem that it was Plutarch who presented Cleopatra a woman overcome with genuine passionate love. But does the queen in the Plutarch’s work really, even for a moment, experience the true agony of love? The problem with this is that if we reject the Shakespearean prism through which we used to view Cleopatra created by Plutarch and we analyse the Life of Antony exclusively in the context of other works of the moralist from Chaeronea, we will not perceive an Egyptian Dido cursing her lover and dying of love. It is a delusion that in the final parts of the Life of Antony, the monarch’s previously feigned or perhaps concealed love for the Roman commander is manifested as true – as is stated by many researchers identifying in Plutarch’s work the specific elements of romance in which the lovers’ feelings are reciprocated.

13

Ancient philosophy of lovesickness: Plutarch, Cleopatra and Eros

83%

Kostuch L.

Prosopon. Europejskie Studia Społeczno-Humanistyczne

|

2014

|

issue 3(9)

5-14

EN

Over the centuries, Cleopatra VII, the famous queen of the Nile, has uttered thousands of amorous sentences in countless dramas, poems, novels, librettos and films. Historians, writers and artists of all periods, selecting the Egyptian monarch as the “hero” of their works, referred, and still continue to do so, primarily to the Life of Antony by a great Greek philosopher and moralist - Plutarch of Chaeronea. It might seem that it was Plutarch who presented Cleopatra a woman overcome with genuine passionate love. But does the queen in the Plutarch’s work really, even for a moment, experience the true agony of love? The problem with this is that if we reject the Shakespearean prism through which we used to view Cleopatra created by Plutarch and we analyse the Life of Antony exclusively in the context of other works of the moralist from Chaeronea, we will not perceive an Egyptian Dido cursing her lover and dying of love. It is a delusion that in the final parts of the Life of Antony, the monarch’s previously feigned or perhaps concealed love for the Roman commander is manifested as true – as is stated by many researchers identifying in Plutarch’s work the specific elements of romance in which the lovers’ feelings are reciprocated.

14

Odwołania do Aleksandra Wielkiego i ich rola w Żywocie Demetriusza Plutarcha z Cheronei

83%

Zieliński T.

Collectanea Philologica

|

2020

|

issue 23

73-89

EN

Among all Plutarch’s Lives of men that lived after IV B.C., the biography of Demetrius Poliorcetes contains the most references to Alexander the Great. It is noteworthy that references to this figure in comparison to other Plutarchean biographies occur in greater numbers and in various contexts. The article is an attempt to demonstrate that the references to Alexander the Great played an important role in the construction of the Plutarch’s Life of Demetrius. Thus their purpose was to portrayal Poliorcetes as a failed imitator of famous Macedonian king. The considerations presented in the article can be used as an argument for changing the image of Demetrius in scholarly literature.

15

Plutarch’s Alexander the Great as focus for Greek identity

71%

Klęczar A.

Classica Cracoviensia

|

2014

|

issue 17

89-101

EN

The present paper concentrates on the character of Plutarch’s Alexander and his idealized Greek traits as visible in one particular set of Plutarch’s stories: the narratives on the childhood and youth of Alexander, presented in Vita Alexandri. By presenting him as a Greek hero, with a number of typically heroic and typically Hellenic features, Plutarch transforms the image of the Macedonian king, creating a model for his audience to identify as an embodiment of Greek greatness. While the portrait of Alexander in Plutarch’s Life of Alexander is rather nuanced and not entirely positive (see, for example, his behaviour in the East), Plutarch seems, in the stories of Alexander’s childhood, to be carefully presenting him as a perfect Greek model of a hero and a future leader.

16

Obraz wojny domowej z lat 83-82 przed Chr. w Żywocie Lucjusza Korneliusza Sulli Plutarcha z Cheronei

71%

Ładoń T.

ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal

|

2017

|

vol. 7

|

issue 2

247-258

PL

An image of the civil war of the years 83–82 BCE in Plutarch’s the Life of Sulla The author of this article is interested in how Plutarch of Chaeronea created the picture of the Sullan War in Parallel lives, especially in the Life of Lucius Cornelius Sulla. Firstly, the author notes that in presenting the civil war Plutarch was dependent on the Memoirs of Sulla. But not only. There are fragments from other source too, probably the same that Appian of Alexandria used. Therefore the Author wonders to what extend Plutarch was tendentious in presenting the Sullan War. Secondly, the author shows which moments of the Sullan War were of especial interest to Plutarch of Chaeronea and tries to answer why some of the events (for example the negotiations between Sulla and Scipio) Plutarch was to described so briefly. Finally, the author indicates why this report of Plutarch of Chaeronea remains a very important source for any historian of the civil wars in Rome.

17

Portret Herodota w świetle traktatu De Herodoti malignitate Plutarcha z Cheronei

71%

Marchewka A.

ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal

|

2017

|

vol. 7

|

issue 2

233-246

PL

Portrait of Herodotus in the light of Plutarch’s treatise De Herodoti malignitate As a Platonist and moralist Plutarch paid particular attention truth. No wonder that in his reference to Herodotus’ Histories he took into consideration the issue of historical truth, which was for him very important - both in its ethical as well as didactic aspect. In his De Herodoti malignitate the Chaeronean moralist is concerned with truth as well as with offering moral uplift. Plutarch presents Herodotus as a perfidious liar who falsely presented such famous and heroic Greeks as Miltiades, Leonidas, Themistocles or Pausanias and - above all - depreciatingly treated the Boeotians and Corinthians. Moreover, Plutarch accuses the historian of Halicarnassus of being malicious (κακοήθεια). For him Herodotus’ lies were deliberate and slandering. Herodotus was also a blasphemer, a pro-barbarian historian; a man who disregarded women. Finally, we get the Plutarchan portrait of Herodotus himself as a blunt barbarian (ὁ ἔσχατος Καρῶν). Such a presentation of Herodotus seems to attest to Plutarch’s own prejudices, if not wickedness. By the same, however, one must take into consideration the literary tradition in which the whole treatise is rooted. So De Herodoti malignitate contains features of historical polemics and is an example of judicial rhetoric, in which the biographer attempts at persuading his readers that his charges against Herodotus are well justified. The treatise is a work representing the new intellectual trend, the so-called Second Sophistic; a polemic written in a period when the Greek intellectuals were deeply engaged in taking issues with past writers. Moreover, a fundamental aspect of De Herodoti malignitate should be taken into account - truth which is analyzed from a moral and psychological perspective. Although a leading motif of the treatise is truthfulness, the direct subject-matter of Plutarch’s considerations remains a lie, or - to put it exactly - lying. Accordingly, the Boeotian moralist singles out and analyses all the fundamental forms of lying. A suitable interpretation of the treatise De Herodoti malignitate depends thus on our knowledge of the cultural distance between Herodotus and Plutarch, although both authors were the representatives of Greek prosa.

18

The Discovery of Incorporeality and the Supernatural in Middle Platonism and its Existential Consequences

71%

Pawłowski K.

Filozofia Chrześcijańska

|

2016

|

vol. 13

77-95

PL

The most important and enduring input of Middle Platonism is the way it unveiled the fascinating depths of human nature in its supernatural dimension, and its greatest secrets, including the most important and most sacred mystery of human love, which is the initiation into divinity itself. The discovery of the supernatural dimension of the human nature enforced a change from materialistic life preferences to spiritual ones - it was the consequence of accepting the supernatural aspects of human existence, but also, above all, it revealed its fascinating and mysterious depth in which divinity itself is both hidden and somehow exposed (although only to those who are initiated). Middle Platonic philosophers returned to Platonic postulates: “follow God” and “imitate to God,” which replaced the Stoic “live in accordance with nature” and “follow nature.” In the eyes of the Platonics, the new direction of human ethical development was to be found in imitating the transcendent and incorporeal divinity.

19

Arrian’s preface to the anabasis Alexandrou and Plutarch’s prologue to the life of Alexander

71%

Burliga B.

Classica Cracoviensia

|

2015

|

issue 18

51-81

EN

It is usually maintained that the main object of Arrian’s criticism in his Anabasis are the historians of Alexander the Great. In the following I would like to argue that one of the writers Arrian criticized was also Plutarch of Chaeronea who wrote an influential biography of the Macedonian king. Although Arrian never referred directly to Plutarch’s Life of Alexander, he read not only many historical works on the king but used and criticized other accounts, called by him ta legomena (‘tales’). To this latter group Plutarch’s vita Alexandri should be included as well.

20

Homoseksualność według starożytnych Greków

67%

Laskowski Ł.

Verbum Vitae

|

2021

|

vol. 39

|

issue 1

75-95

EN

The article presents the issue of homosexuality in ancient Greece. Pederasty as a relationship between an adult male and a boy was a special part of mentoring. It is sometimes associated with the sexual oppression and intrusiveness relevant to a patriarchal society. Homosexual relations between peers and adults were known and accepted as long as they did not exceed the rules set by the polis. They could not violate the virtue of moderation and reduce men to the role ascribed to women, and the passive partner did not experience pleasure in the sexual relationship. Women could not take on the male role because it would mean achieving the pleasure inherent in men. The causes of homosexuality were sought in the positive will of god, explaining it as a desire to unite also with what is similar, as well as in nature and upbringing, and later in human physiology.

PL

Artykuł przedstawia problem homoseksualności w starożytnej Grecji. Paiderastia jako relacja między dorosłym mężczyzną i chłopcem to szczególny element wychowania. Niekiedy wiąże się z opresją seksualną i natarczywością właściwą społeczeństwu patriarchalnemu. Relacje homoseks alne między rówieśnikami i dorosłymi były znane i akceptowane, o ile nie przekraczały ustalonych przez polis zasad. Nie mogły naruszać cnoty umiaru oraz sprowadzać mężczyzn do roli przypisywanej kobietom, a partner bierny nie mógł odczuwać przyjemności z seksualnej relacji. Kobiety nie mogły przejmować roli męskiej, gdyż oznaczałoby to osiąganie przyjemności właściwej mężczyznom. Przyczyn homoseksualizmu doszukiwano się w pozytywnej woli boga, tłumacząc ją jako pragnienie zjednoczenia się także z tym, co podobne, a także w naturze i wychowaniu, a później w fizjologii człowieka.

Refine search results

The Twelfth Congress of The International Plutarch Society: “Plutarch and His Contemporaries: Sharing the Roman Empire” (2–5 September 2021)

Plutarch w Semeioseis gnomikai Teodora Metochitesa

Kleopatra i eros w Żywocie Antoniusza. O nadinterpretacji dzieła Plutarcha

Nannies “Bought” in Laconia: Slaves or Hired? A Note to Plutarch, Lycurgus, 16,5

Jill E. Marshall, Women Praying and Prophesying in Corinth. Gender and Inspired Speech in First Corinthians (WUNT 2/448 Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2017)

O przemianach tradycji antycznej i ich odniesieniu do historyzmu na przykładzie recepcji Plutarcha (z Norwidem w tle)

O przemianach tradycji antycznej i ich odniesieniu do historyzmu na przykładzie recepcji Plutarcha (z Norwidem w tle)

Polemika przeciwko polemice. Plutarcha krytyka epikureizmu

The Seven Sages on the Issues of Universal Dialogue: A Message to the Contemporary World

Adesp. 741 K.-A. Some Aspects of Comic Stylistics

Przyjaciel czy pochlebca? Żona jako lustro w „Zaleceniach małżeńskich” Plutarcha (14, 139f–140a)

Ancient philosophy of lovesickness Plutarch, Cleopatra and Eros

Ancient philosophy of lovesickness: Plutarch, Cleopatra and Eros

Odwołania do Aleksandra Wielkiego i ich rola w Żywocie Demetriusza Plutarcha z Cheronei

Plutarch’s Alexander the Great as focus for Greek identity

Obraz wojny domowej z lat 83-82 przed Chr. w Żywocie Lucjusza Korneliusza Sulli Plutarcha z Cheronei

Portret Herodota w świetle traktatu De Herodoti malignitate Plutarcha z Cheronei

The Discovery of Incorporeality and the Supernatural in Middle Platonism and its Existential Consequences

Arrian’s preface to the anabasis Alexandrou and Plutarch’s prologue to the life of Alexander

Homoseksualność według starożytnych Greków