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Starzec w polityce. Zmienne poglądy Plutarcha z Cheronei

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Osek E.

Vox Patrum

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2011

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vol. 56

133-145

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Plutarch of Chaeronea (ca. 45-122/125) changed his attitude to on old age in the successive stages of his life and literary production. In the period between AD 85 and 95 the middle-aged author inclined to the Stoic theory on old age. According to the Stoic doctrine his Table talks (Symposiacs) show an old age of man as a heatless and moistures state causing the physical and mental degeneracy. In the next phase – the time of working on the Parallel Lives (AD 96-117) Plutarch hesitated between the pessimistic Stoic view and the neo-Stoic conception of the eugeria („the beautiful ageing”), whose embodiment and ideal was Cato the Elder. The ultimate Plutarch’s position is contained in his last work entitled Whether an old man should engage in public affairs. This treatise on old age, being the only such a work extant in Greek language, was written in AD 119/120, when Hadrian appointed over seventy-year-old Plutarch to a governor of Greece. The author argues now that an old statesman is much better than a young one and that a politician doesn’t have to finish his public career because of his old age. The Plutarch’s sources are not Peripatetic, as most of the scholars suppose, but Epicurean and perhaps also Middle Platonic. The thesis of this article is that the philosopher of Chaeronea always oscillated between Stoicism and Epicureanism in his approach to old age.

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Eros paidikos kontra miłość do kobiety w Dialogu o miłości erotycznej Plutarcha i Bogach miłości Lukiana

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Sowa J., Uniwersytet Łódzki K. F. K., Classical philol- ogist h. o. t. C. o. C. P. a. U. o. Ł. R. i. l. a. p. o. a. G.

Collectanea Philologica

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2014

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vol. 17

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In this paper, I examine the debate between advocates of male and female love in two works dedicated to this subject: Plutarch’s Amatorius (Dialogue on Love) and Lucian’s Amores (Affairs of the Heart). Plutarch, drawing on Platonic tradition, accepts and praises eros paidikos, but he condemns homosexual intercourse as an act of hybris. On the other hand, Plutarch rejects traditional Greek prejudices against women and glorifies marriage as the highest form of human relationship: he argues that conjugal love contains both the lifelong friendship and sexual relations which are a source of mutual kindness, respect and affection. In Lucian’s work the defender of pederasty, portraying it as a spiritual relationship and a mark of advanced cultural evolution, wins the debate; but in the last part of dialogue moral demands of sexual restraint in pederasty are mocked, and sexual pleasure is called “a mediator of friendship”.

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Kilka uwag na temat polemiki Plutarcha ze stoikami

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Damski M.

ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal

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2017

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vol. 7

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issue 2

223-232

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Some comments on the polemics of Plutarch with Stoics The purpose of this article is to briefly discuss several key anti-stoic arguments presented in Plutarch’s polemical texts - De stoicorum repugnantiis and De communibus notitiis adversus stoicos. The paper argues that the polemic against Stoicism is rather ill-disposed and that the presented arguments, despite their rhetorical power and elegancy in language, show an insufficient understanding of the criticised doctrine.

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"Coniugalia praecepta" Plutarcha o życiu żon

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Budzanowska-Weglenda D.

Vox Patrum

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2016

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vol. 65

99-117

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The good wife, as Plutrach taught, ought to have no feeling of her own, but she should join with her husband in seriousness and sportiveness, in soberness and laughter. The husband has to be pure and clean from all connexion with others when he approach his wife and her virtue, her exclusive devotion to her husband, her constancy, and her affection, ought to be most in evidence. The man ought to exercise control over the woman, not as the owner has control over a piece of property, but, as the soul colonists the body, by entering into her feelings and being knit to her through goodwill. He is teacher of philosophy, she is his disciple: for his wife husband must collect from every source what is useful and carrying it within his own self impart it to her, and then discusses it with her, and makes the best of these doctrines her favourite and familiar themes.

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Starzec w polityce. Zmienne poglądy Plutarcha z Cheronei

Eros paidikos kontra miłość do kobiety w Dialogu o miłości erotycznej Plutarcha i Bogach miłości Lukiana

Kilka uwag na temat polemiki Plutarcha ze stoikami

"Coniugalia praecepta" Plutarcha o życiu żon