A commentary on Plutarch's De latenter vivendo
By: Geert Roskam.
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng; grc
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9789058676030
Subjects: Plutarch; Epicurus; Ethics, Ancient
Description: "Plutarch's De latenter uiuendo is the only extant work from Antiquity in which Epicurus' famous ideal of an 'unnoticed life' (lathe biosas) is thematised as such. Moreover, the short rhetorical work provides a lot of interesting information about Plutarch's polemical strategies and about his own philosophical convictions in the domains of ethics, politics, metaphysics, and eschatology." "In this book, Plutarch's anti-Epicurean polemic is understood against the background of the previous philosophical tradition. An examination of Epicurus' own position is followed by a discussion of Plutarch's polemical predecessors (Timocrates, Cicero, the early Stoics, and Seneca) and contemporaries (Epictetus), and by a systematical and detailed analysis of Plutarch's own arguments. The lemmatic commentary offers additional information and parallel passages (both from Plutarch's own works and from other authors) that cast a new light on the text."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-245) and indexes.