Daniel Babut
Daniel Babut (12 February 1929 – 13 February 2009) was a French Hellenist, specialising in Greek philosophy, especially the "Moralia" of Plutarch. He was employed by the Lumière University Lyon 2 from 1963 to 1992. He was born in Lille. Work. Daniel Babut dedicated his doctoral thesis, completed in 1969, to Plutarch and his reception of Stoicism. He showed that Plutarch was opposed, consistently and sometimes violently, to Stoic philosophy and made the Stoics his "chief adversaries." ». The same year he published the text of Plutarch's "On Moral Virtue", one of the texts in which he found particularly  marked polemic against the stoics, in the Collection Budé. Interested in the question of Greek philosophers relationship with the divine, he published a synthesis "La Religion des philosophes grecs de Thalès aux stoïcismes" (The Religion of the Greek Philosophers from Thales to the Stoics) in 1974. His studies were particularly focussed on the place of Anaximander and Xenophanes in the evolution of ideas about the divine. References.