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OverviewA Platonist philosopher and priest of Apollo at Delphi, Plutarch (ca. 45-120 CE) covers in his vast oeuvre of miscellaneous writings and biographies of great men virtually every aspect of ancient religion, Greek, Roman, Jewish, Egyptian, Persian. This collection of essays takes the reader on a hike through Plutarch’s Religious Landscapes offering as a compass the philosopher’s considerations on issues of philosophical theology, cult, ethics, politics, natural sciences, hermeneutics, atheism, and life after death. Plutarch provides a unique vantage point to reconstruct and understand many of the interesting developments that were taking in the philosophical and religious world of the first centuries CE. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rainer Hirsch-Luipold , Lautaro Roig LanzillottaPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 6 Weight: 0.805kg ISBN: 9789004443525ISBN 10: 9004443525 Pages: 398 Publication Date: 26 November 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroduction Rainer Hirsch-Luipold and Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta Part 1 An Introductory Survey of Plutarch’s Religious Landscape 1 Religions, Religion and Theology in Plutarch Rainer Hirsch-Luipold Part 2 Plutarch’s Theology, Notion of Religion, and Ethics 2 Deaf to the Gods: Atheism in Plutarch’s De superstitione Inger N.I. Kuin 3 Plutarch on the Platonic Synthesis: A Synthesis Michiel Meeusen 4 Plutarch’s Monotheism and the God of Mathematics Peter Lötscher 5 Plutarch’s Theonomous Ethics and Christianity: A Few Thoughts on a Much-Discussed Problem Geert Roskam 6 An End in Itself, or a Means to an End? The Role of Ethics in the Second Century: Plutarch’s Moralia and Nag Hammadi Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta 7 Reincarnation and Other Experiences of the Soul in Plutarch’s De facie: Two Case Studies Luisa Lesage Gárriga 8 The Conception of the Last Steps towards Salvation Revisited: The Telos of the Soul in Plutarch and Its Context Israel Muñoz Gallarte 9 Gods, Impiety and Pollution in the Life and Death of Phocion Delfim Leão 10 The Religiosity of (Greek and Roman) στρατηγοί Serena Citro 11 La valeur de la tolma dans les Moralia de Plutarque Joaquim Pinheiro Part 3 Plutarch’s Testimony of Ancient Religion 12 The Religious Landscape of Plutarch’s Quaestiones Graecae Fabio Tanga 13 Human Sacrifices: Can They Be Justified? Carlos Alcalde-Martín 14 The Conception of the Goddess Hecate in Plutarch Nerea López Garrasco 15 Plutarch and the Ambiguity of the God Dionysus Paola Volpe 16 Interpretations of Dionysus Ἰσοδαίτης in an Orphic Ritual (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos 389A) Soraya Planchas Gallarte 17 The Epiphany of Dionysus in Elis and the Miracle of the Wine (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 299 B) Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal 18 Divination in Plutarch’s Life of Cicero Elsa Giovanna Simonetti Part 4 Some Glimpses of the Reception of Plutarch’s Religion 19 The Reception of Plutarch’s Universe Christina Harker 20 Les daimons de Plutarque et leur réception dans la Renaissance française Olivier Guerrier et Sixtine Desmoulins IndexReviewsAuthor InformationRainer Hirsch-Luipold is Professor of New Testament and History of Ancient Religions, Faculty of Theology, University of Bern and Extraordinary Professor, University of Stellenbosch (SA), Department of Ancient Studies. He has published extensively on Plutarch’s religious philosophy and his use of imagery as well as the religious philosophical literature in Early Imperial times more broadly. Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Groningen and is currently the Director of the Koninklijk Nederlands Institute of Rome. He has published extensively on Plutarch, Early Christian apocrypha and Gnosticism. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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