The polygraph from Chaeronea includes in Moralia and Lives a wide range of interesting views on religious and philosophical matters: philosophical theology, cult, ethics, politics, natural sciences, hermeneutics, atheism, and the afterlife. The essays included in Plutarch’s Religious Landscapes offer a glance into these views.
Author(s): Rainer Hirsch-Luipold, Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
Series: Brill's Plutarch Studies 6
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 408
City: Leiden
Contents
Preface
Introduction (Hirsch-Luipold and Roig Lanzillotta)
Part 1. An Introductory Survey of Plutarch’s Religious Landscape
Chapter 1. Religions, Religion, and Theology in Plutarch (Hirsch-Luipold)
Part 2. Plutarch’s Theology, Notion of Religion, and Ethics
Chapter 2. Deaf to the Gods: Atheism in Plutarch’s De superstitione (Kuin)
Chapter 3. Plutarch on the Platonic Synthesis: A Synthesis (Meeusen)
Chapter 4. Plutarch’s Monotheism and the God of Mathematics (Lötscher)
Chapter 5. Plutarch’s Theonomous Ethics and Christianity: A Few Thoughts on a Much-Discussed Problem (Roskam)
Chapter 6. An End in Itself, or a Means to an End? The Role of Ethics in the Second Century: Plutarch’s Moralia and the Nag Hammadi Writings (Roig Lanzillotta)
Chapter 7. Reincarnation and Other Experiences of the Soul in Plutarch’s De facie: Two Case Studies (Lesage Gárriga)
Chapter 8. The Conception of the Last Steps towards Salvation Revisited: The Telos of the Soul in Plutarch and Its Context (Muñoz Gallarte)
Chapter 9. Gods, Impiety and Pollution in the Life and Death of Phocion (Leão)
Chapter 10. The Religiosity of (Greek and Roman) στρατηγοί (Citro)
Chapter 11. La valeur de la tolma dans les Moralia de Plutarque (Pinheiro)
Part 3. Plutarch’s Testimony of Ancient Religion
Chapter 12. The Religious Landscape of Plutarch’s Quaestiones Graecae (Tanga)
Chapter 13. Human Sacrifices: Can They Be Justified? (Alcalde-Martín)
Chapter 14. The Conception of the Goddess Hecate in Plutarch (López Carrasco)
Chapter 15. Plutarch and the Ambiguity of the God Dionysus (Volpe)
Chapter 16. Interpretations of Dionysus Ἰσοδαίτης in an Orphic Ritual (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos 389A) (Planchas Gallarte)
Chapter 17. The Epiphany of Dionysus in Elis and the Miracle of the Wine (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 299 B) (Jiménez San Cristóbal)
Chapter 18. Divination in Plutarch’s Life of Cicero (Simonetti)
Part 4. Some Glimpses of the Reception of Plutarch’s Religion
Chapter 19. The Reception of Plutarch’s Universe (Harker)
Chapter 20. Les daimons de Plutarque et leur réception dans la Renaissance française (Desmoulins et Guerrier)
Index of Ancient Sources
