Plutarch's Religious Landscapes

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-44352-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 398 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 805 g

Reihe: Brill's Plutarch Studies

A Platonist philosopher and priest of Apollo at Delphi, Plutarch (ca. 45-120 CE) covers in his vast oeuvre of miscellaneous writings and biographies of great men virtually every aspect of ancient religion, Greek, Roman, Jewish, Egyptian, Persian. This collection of essays takes the reader on a hike through Plutarch’s Religious Landscapes offering as a compass the philosopher’s considerations on issues of philosophical theology, cult, ethics, politics, natural sciences, hermeneutics, atheism, and life after death. Plutarch provides a unique vantage point to reconstruct and understand many of the interesting developments that were taking in the philosophical and religious world of the first centuries CE.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hirsch-Luipold, Rainer

Roig Lanzillotta, Lautaro

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Rainer Hirsch-Luipold and Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta

Part 1 An Introductory Survey of Plutarch’s Religious Landscape

1 Religions, Religion and Theology in Plutarch

Rainer Hirsch-Luipold

Part 2 Plutarch’s Theology, Notion of Religion, and Ethics

2 Deaf to the Gods: Atheism in Plutarch’s De superstitione

Inger N.I. Kuin

3 Plutarch on the Platonic Synthesis: A Synthesis

Michiel Meeusen

4 Plutarch’s Monotheism and the God of Mathematics

Peter Lötscher

5 Plutarch’s Theonomous Ethics and Christianity: A Few Thoughts on a Much-Discussed Problem

Geert Roskam

6 An End in Itself, or a Means to an End? The Role of Ethics in the Second Century: Plutarch’s Moralia and Nag Hammadi

Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta

7 Reincarnation and Other Experiences of the Soul in Plutarch’s De facie: Two Case Studies

Luisa Lesage Gárriga

8 The Conception of the Last Steps towards Salvation Revisited: The Telos of the Soul in Plutarch and Its Context

Israel Muñoz Gallarte

9 Gods, Impiety and Pollution in the Life and Death of Phocion

Delfim Leão

10 The Religiosity of (Greek and Roman) st?at????

Serena Citro

11 La valeur de la tolma dans les Moralia de Plutarque

Joaquim Pinheiro

Part 3 Plutarch’s Testimony of Ancient Religion

12 The Religious Landscape of Plutarch’s Quaestiones Graecae

Fabio Tanga

13 Human Sacrifices: Can They Be Justified?

Carlos Alcalde-Martín

14 The Conception of the Goddess Hecate in Plutarch

Nerea López Garrasco

15 Plutarch and the Ambiguity of the God Dionysus

Paola Volpe

16 Interpretations of Dionysus ?s?da?t?? in an Orphic Ritual (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos 389A)

Soraya Planchas Gallarte

17 The Epiphany of Dionysus in Elis and the Miracle of the Wine (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 299 B)

Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal

18 Divination in Plutarch’s Life of Cicero

Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

Part 4 Some Glimpses of the Reception of Plutarch’s Religion

19 The Reception of Plutarch’s Universe

Christina Harker

20 Les daimons de Plutarque et leur réception dans la Renaissance française

Olivier Guerrier et Sixtine Desmoulins

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rainer Hirsch-Luipold is Professor of New Testament and History of Ancient Religions, Faculty of Theology, University of Bern and Extraordinary Professor, University of Stellenbosch (SA), Department of Ancient Studies. He has published extensively on Plutarch’s religious philosophy and his use of imagery as well as the religious philosophical literature in Early Imperial times more broadly.

Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Groningen and is currently the Director of the Koninklijk Nederlands Institute of Rome. He has published extensively on Plutarch, Early Christian apocrypha and Gnosticism.