Plutarch in the Religious and Philosophical Discourse of Late Antiquity
Edited by Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, University of Groningen, and Israel Muñoz Gallarte, University of Córdoba
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Biographical note
Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, Ph.D. in Classics (1997) and in Theology (2004) is Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Studies at the University of Groningen. He has published extensively on classics, ancient history and philosophy, and Early Christianity. He is the author a.o. of La envidia en el pensamiento griego (Madrid 1997) and Acta Andreae Apocrypha. A New Perspective on the Nature, Intention and Significance of the Primitive Text (Geneva 2007).
Israel Muñoz Gallarte, PhD in Classics (2006) is Assistant Profesor of Classics at the University of Córdoba. He publishes on classics, Plutarch, Early Christian Apocrypha, and Semantics. He is the author of Los sustantivos-Hecho en el Nuevo Testamento (Madrid 2008) and co-author of Cuenca capta: los libros griegos del s. XVI en el Seminario Conciliar de San Julián (Cuenca 2010).
Contributors: A.P. Bos, F. Becchi, Raúl Caballero, F. Brenk, G. Roskam, M. Meeusen, A. Jiménez, L. Roig Lanzillotta, A. Casanova, A. Pérez Jiménez, P. Volpe Cacciatore, D. Leao, R. Scannapieco, G. van Kooten, I. Muñoz Gallarte.
Israel Muñoz Gallarte, PhD in Classics (2006) is Assistant Profesor of Classics at the University of Córdoba. He publishes on classics, Plutarch, Early Christian Apocrypha, and Semantics. He is the author of Los sustantivos-Hecho en el Nuevo Testamento (Madrid 2008) and co-author of Cuenca capta: los libros griegos del s. XVI en el Seminario Conciliar de San Julián (Cuenca 2010).
Contributors: A.P. Bos, F. Becchi, Raúl Caballero, F. Brenk, G. Roskam, M. Meeusen, A. Jiménez, L. Roig Lanzillotta, A. Casanova, A. Pérez Jiménez, P. Volpe Cacciatore, D. Leao, R. Scannapieco, G. van Kooten, I. Muñoz Gallarte.
Readership
All those interested in Plutarch’s Moralia in general and in the ancient religious and philosophical world in particular. Also, scholars working on Plutarch, Platonism, Mysteries, Greek religion and Bible studies.
Table of contents
Introduction
I. Plutarch and Philosophy
1. Plutarch on the Sleeping Soul and the Waking Intellect and Aristotle’s Double Entelechy Concept
Abraham P. Bos
2. The Doctrine Of The Passions: Plutarch, Posidonius And Galen
Francesco Becchi
3. The Adventitious Motion of the Soul (Plut., Stoic. rep. 23, 1045 B-F) and the Controversy between Aristo of Chios and the Middle Academy
Raúl Caballero
4. Plutarch and “Pagan Monotheism”
Frederick Brenk
5. Socrates and Alcibiades: a notorious σκάνδαλον in the later Platonist tradition
Geert Roskam
6. Salt in the holy water Plutarch’s Quaestiones Naturales in Michael Psellus’ De omnifaria doctrina
Michiel Meeusen
II. Plutarch and Religion
7. Iacchus In Plutarch
Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal
8. Plutarch’s Idea of God in the Religious and Philosophical Context of Late Antiquity
Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
9. Plutarch as Apollo’s priest at Delphi
Angelo Casanova
10. Plutarch’s Attitude Towards Astral Biology
Aurelio Pérez Jiménez
11. “Cicalata sul fascino volgarmente detto jettatura”: Plutarch, quaestio convivalis 5.7
Paola Volpe Cacciatore
12. The Eleusinian Mysteries and political timing in the Life of Alcibiades
Delfim F. Leão
13. Μυστηριῶδης θεολογία: Plutarch's fr. 157 Sandbach between cultual traditions and philosophical models
Rosario Scannapieco
14. A non-fideistic interpretation of ‘pistis’ in Plutarch’s Writings: The harmony between ‘pistis’ and knowledge
George van Kooten
15. The colors of the souls
Israel Muñoz Gallarte
Index
I. Plutarch and Philosophy
1. Plutarch on the Sleeping Soul and the Waking Intellect and Aristotle’s Double Entelechy Concept
Abraham P. Bos
2. The Doctrine Of The Passions: Plutarch, Posidonius And Galen
Francesco Becchi
3. The Adventitious Motion of the Soul (Plut., Stoic. rep. 23, 1045 B-F) and the Controversy between Aristo of Chios and the Middle Academy
Raúl Caballero
4. Plutarch and “Pagan Monotheism”
Frederick Brenk
5. Socrates and Alcibiades: a notorious σκάνδαλον in the later Platonist tradition
Geert Roskam
6. Salt in the holy water Plutarch’s Quaestiones Naturales in Michael Psellus’ De omnifaria doctrina
Michiel Meeusen
II. Plutarch and Religion
7. Iacchus In Plutarch
Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal
8. Plutarch’s Idea of God in the Religious and Philosophical Context of Late Antiquity
Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
9. Plutarch as Apollo’s priest at Delphi
Angelo Casanova
10. Plutarch’s Attitude Towards Astral Biology
Aurelio Pérez Jiménez
11. “Cicalata sul fascino volgarmente detto jettatura”: Plutarch, quaestio convivalis 5.7
Paola Volpe Cacciatore
12. The Eleusinian Mysteries and political timing in the Life of Alcibiades
Delfim F. Leão
13. Μυστηριῶδης θεολογία: Plutarch's fr. 157 Sandbach between cultual traditions and philosophical models
Rosario Scannapieco
14. A non-fideistic interpretation of ‘pistis’ in Plutarch’s Writings: The harmony between ‘pistis’ and knowledge
George van Kooten
15. The colors of the souls
Israel Muñoz Gallarte
Index
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