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A critical examination of the ancient sources regarding Julius Caesar's opposition to the execution of Catiline's co-conspirators. Sallust's account is compared to the evidence from Cicero's speech (In Catilinam IV), along with later... more
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      Ancient HistoryRoman HistoryRoman LawRoman Republic
The paper (accessible here too: http://hdl.handle.net/10889/14833) offers an interpretation of Solon's citizenship law (Plu. Sol. 24.4), focusing on its importance (the first of its kind) and its (occasionally misunderstood) meaning.... more
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      Athenian DemocracyPlutarchCitizenship and IdentityCitizenship (Law)
An analysis on land-reform and wealth amongst the Spartiates of Ancient Lacedaemon
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      HistoryAncient HistoryClassicsGreek History
The Plutarchean Alexander,
Talk at the Kapodistrian University of Athens
May 30, 2018
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      PapyrologyPlutarchAlexander the GreatAncient Greek Historiography
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      Greek LiteratureWomen's StudiesTextual CriticismWomen
Arato di Sicione, decine di volte stratego della Lega achea, liberatore di Corinto, oggetto di culto da parte dei concittadini dopo la morte in quanto salvatore della città; Artaserse II, sovrano achemenide dai molti chiaroscuri, abile... more
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      Achaemenid PersiaPlutarchAchaemenid HistoryAratus
The contributions deal with symposion, philanthropia, and related subjects in six major sections: after an overview on Plutarch’s place in the genre of symposion, the first two sections focus on the philosophical, literary and... more
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      Greek LiteraturePlutarchAncient Greek HistoryPlutarchus
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      Art HistoryLibrary ScienceRenaissance StudiesRenaissance Humanism
ENGLISH: Starting from the judgement on Themistocles’ political plans that Plutarch formulates while accounting for the naval law proposal of 483/2 BC, this paper aims to exploit some pieces of information drawn from the "Life of... more
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      PlutarchAncient Greek HistoryHerodotusAncient Greek Politics
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      Ancient HistoryPlutarchSpartaSpartan history & modern reception
This paper examines Plato's Symposium from the perspective of narcissistic 'love' relationships. Given the importance of the Symposium to the Western esoteric tradition, and recent scholarship highlighting how mystery cults have... more
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      Tactics (Military Science)SocratesIntelligence and EspionageMystery Cults
The volume is organized in four different sections. The first one is devoted to statesmen and lawgivers; the second section is dedicated to the relation between nomos and kosmos; the third section is organized under the topic of the path... more
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      Greek LiteraturePlutarchAncient Greek ReligionPlutarch, Greek Literature
Questo lavoro si prefissa come obbiettivo di dare una nuova lettura della figura di Marco Crasso rispetto a quella proposta da A. Garzetti, basandosi sugli studi di B. A. Marshall e A. M. Ward, a cui sono stati aggiunti gli ultimi studi... more
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      Plutarch's Parallel LivesMarcus Licinius CrassusPlutarco Vite ParalleleSurena
Six figures in Plutarch’s Lives strayed from the customs of their native lands: Alcibiades, Alexander, Antony, Coriolanus, Sertorius and Themistocles. What do these six Lives reveal about Greek attitudes toward assimilation and... more
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      PlutarchAlexander the GreatAncient Greek HistoriographyCross-dressing
Do amor fraterno ou Περὶ φιλαδελφίας (Perì philadelphías) é um tratado de Plutarco oferecido aos irmãos Nigrino e Quieto, que são considerados modelares para o seu discurso sobre como deve ser a relação entre irmãos. Plutarco traça uma... more
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      Friendship StudiesPhilosophy Of FriendshipPlutarchAncient Greek Philosophy
Avanzada yala composición delas Vida Paralelas 1 , Plutarco decide exponer abiertamente su método de trabajo y sus objetivos. Lo hace en la Vidade Teseo, donde admitelas dificultades que conlleva la tarea historiográfica,... more
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      PlutarchGreek MythClassical MythologyPlutarch, Greek Literature
Portuguese translation, with introduction and commentary of Plutarch's Lives of Solon and Publicola.
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      PlutarchAncient Greek HistoryAncient Greek LiteraturePlutarco
Le présent volume trouve son origine dans la rencontre annuelle du Réseau International de recherche et de formation à la recherche Plutarque (RED) qui s’est tenue à la Maison de l’Archéologie et de l’Ethnologie René Ginouvès de Nanterre... more
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      PlutarchAncient Greek ReligionAncient Greek HistoryAncient Greek Philosophy
Grazie alle fonti d'archivio e alla lettura iconografica e iconologica dei dipinti di Luca Cambiaso in palazzo Imperiale di Campetto a Genova, si chiarisce dopo 500 anni il significato del grande ciclo del secondo piano nobile, voluto da... more
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      Art HistoryLibrary ScienceArchitectureAcademic Librarianship
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      Greek LiteratureSecond SophisticNarratologyBiography
Portuguese translation, with introduction and commentary of Plutarch's Lives of Theseus and Romulus.
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      Greek LiteraturePlutarchAncient Greek HistoryPlutarch, Greek Literature
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      Anatolian HistoryAncient HistoriographyPlutarchHellenistic and Roman Asia Minor
It is the whole text of this article. Based on the Bible and numerous Greek writers’ works, one will prove that the ancient world nations, both Jewish and Gentile, had many identical cultural practices relating to war times. The custom to... more
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      Greek LiteratureHomerEucharistBiblical Hebrew (Languages And Linguistics)
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      PlutarchAncient Greek LiteraturePlutarch, Greek LiteraturePlutarchus
Prav tako, Sosij Senekion, kot zemljepisci stlačijo stvari, ki so se izmaknile njihovemu poznanju, na skrajne robove kart ter v razlago pripišejo »od tod naprej so puščave, brez vode in polne divjih zveri«, ali »neznano močvirje« ali... more
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      PlutarchGreco-Roman MythologyAncient RomeTheseus
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      Hellenistic HistoryAnatolian HistoryPlutarchHellenistic and Roman Asia Minor
L a trasmissione della conoscenza storica risponde alla configurazione di una memoria, ed è in questa capacità di conservazione di certe infor-mazioni che ci imbattiamo nel processo di selezione degli avvenimenti registrati dallo storico.... more
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      PlutarchPlutarch, Greek LiteraturePlutarcoPlutarchus
ABSTRACT: On the numerous occasions in which Plutarch mentions places, monuments, objects or events in his Parallel Lives, there are few examples in which we are assured that he had seen those personally, either because he states so... more
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      Ancient Greek and Roman ArtPlutarch's Parallel Lives
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      HistoryAncient HistoryPlutarchImperial Rome
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      PlutarchPlutarch's Parallel Lives
In some passages of Plutarch’s works the actors’ mimesis is compared with the politicians’ ability to adapt to roles or situations. Actors’ imitative skills are subject to Plutarch’s evaluation only when they are used in political life.
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      Greek TheatrePlutarchPlutarch, Greek LiteraturePlutarchus
Herodotus’ Histories are a fundamental hypotext for Plutarch and his references to historical events. In his treatise De Herodoti malignitate, Plutarch questions Herodotus’ historiographic method, attributing to him a deliberate... more
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      Greek LiteraturePlutarch's Parallel Lives
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      Roman HistoriographyAncient HistoriographyPlutarchAlexander the Great
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      Ancient HistoriographyEpaminondasPlutarch's Parallel Lives
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      Byzantine LiteratureHistoriographyAudience and Reception StudiesByzantine Studies
La propuesta del presente curso es indagar en el estilo biográfico de Plutarco y Suetonio para acercarnos a través de ellos a la historia de la antigua Roma. Entendemos que el peculiar abordaje del género biográfico nos permite acceder a... more
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      Roman HistoryBiographyPlutarchEmperor Nero
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(2018). ‘Propertius and the unstructured self’, in S. Frangoulidis and S. Harrison (eds.), Life, Love and Death in Latin Poetry, pp. 13-36
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      StoicismPropertiusPlato and PlatonismAncient Greek Philosophy
«Linguistic and rhetorical implications of ostracism in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives». This paper aims to analyse ostracism according to Plutarch’s Life of Nicias (chapter 11), Themistocles (21-22), Kimon (1), Aristides (1 and 7), Pericles... more
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      Greek HistoryRhetoricBiographyAthenian Democracy
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      Ancient HistoryClassicsGreek LiteratureRoman History
The aim of this article is to investigate how Plutarch used Thucydides’ work as historical source for his Life of Nicia, offering an overview of the techniques through which he selects, adapts and manipulates his sources producing... more
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      ThucydidesAncient Greek HistoriographyAlcibiadesNicias
By focusing on a rhetorical and literary approach, this paper aims to study the discursive representation of superstition in Plutarch’s Niciasand Dión. We will analyze in particular the lunar eclipse episode included in Nicias 23 and... more
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      BiographyPlutarchAncient BiographyAncient Greek Literature
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      Alexander the GreatAncient chronologyThe Diadochoi (The Successors of Alexander III the Great)Plutarch's Parallel Lives
This paper aims to describe the image of Lycurgus in Plutarch’s Life. We intend to demonstrate that the biographer bases his positive opinion on the moral coherency of the character, since the success of his legislation is... more
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      PlutarchAncient SpartaPlutarch, Greek LiteraturePlutarco
En estudios anteriores he planteado ya algunas reflexiones sobre el personaje de Sertorio, pero quisiera retomar aquí, a partir del marco indicado, ciertos elementos que me llaman la atención de la biografía de Plutarco. En cualquier... more
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      PlutarchAncient BiographyOdysseyBoeotia
Aut credebat esse aut credi volebat: fonti antiche e tentativi di analisi psicologica, in «Scholia. Didattica», [supplemento didattico a ‘Scholia. Rivista di letteratura latina e greca’, edita presso il Dipartimento di Studi Antichistici... more
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      Ancient HistoryPsychologyHistorical AnthropologyRoman History
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      PlutarchDionysusPlutarch's Parallel LivesAncient Greek Banquets
Estudio sobre las traducciones latinas del XIV-XVI de las Vidas de Plutarco (relaciones con el texto griego, influencia entre ellas, etc.) con una referencia particular a la Vida de Alejandro y a la calidad literaria y filológica de las... more
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      Plutarch, Greek LiteraturePlutarch's Parallel Lives
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      Roman HistoriographyAncient HistoriographyHellenistic HistoriographyPlutarch