The lash of ambition
Subtitle: Plutarch, imperial Greek literature and the dynamics of Philotimia
By: edited by G. Roskam, M. De Pourcq, L. Van der Stockt
Series: Collection d'Études Classiques -- volume 25; Collection d'études classiques -- 25.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leuven; Walpole, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9789042925397
Subjects: Second Sophistic movement; Ambition in literature; Criticism and interpretation; Honor in literature; History
Description: In this volume, various aspects of Plutarch's view of 'philotimia' are analysed in detail and compared with the position of several authors of the 'Second Sophistic'. This confrontation challenges the often implicit and unquestioned consensus that Plutarch occupies as a singular figure 'his own space' apart from the 'Second Sophistic'. The broad approach and focus of this volume includes problems of textual criticism, comparative analysis, careful semantic studies of the occurrences of the term 'philotimia' in the different authors, moral-philosophical reflection on ambition, a study of philosophy as a field of honour, and the dynamics of the author's own 'philotimia' placed in the contemporary cultural context. The novel assessments of the different authors that are presented in this collection contribute to a proper understanding of their own (rhetorical/philosophical) culture and of their cultural environment. As a result, the monograph will be of interest to those studying Plutarch and the history of philosophy, rhetoric and the 'Second Sophistic'.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-283) and index.

In English; occasional phrases in Ancient Greek with English translations.
Table of contents: title: 'Always to excel'!; title: Some observations and reflections on filotimi/a in Greek literature and culture  -- M. DePourcq, G. Roskam; title: Plou/tarxos sumfilotimoumenos  -- H.G. Ingenkamp; title: Aspects of Plutarch's notion of Philotimia  -- A.G. Nikolaidis; title: Plutarch on Toman Philotimia  -- C. Pelling; title: Sophistic Philotimia in Plutarch  -- T.A. Schmitz; title: The philosopher's ambition :; title: Plutarch, Arrian, and Marcus Aurelius  -- P.A. Stadter; title: Bryson's Manadement of the estate :; title: control of ambition in a first-century book of rules  -- S. Swain; title: Dio Chrysoston and the value of prestige  -- M. Trapp; title: Is Philotimia and Greekness in Lucian  -- J. Mossman; title: For love of an honourable name :; title: prototypical philosophy and philosophers in Maximus of Tyre  -- J. Lauwers, G. Roskam; title: Rivalry and envy, rehabilitation and self-promotion :; title: Philotimia in Flavius Philostratus  -- K. Demoen; title: The Philotimia of Aristides  -- E.L. Bowie; title: Conversing with posterity :; title: Hermogenes, Aristides and Sophistic filotimi/a -- M. Korenjak.