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Plutarch was a brilliant Platonist, an erudite historian, a gifted author of highly polished literary dialogues, a priest of Apollo at Delphi, and a devoted politician in his hometown Chaeronea. He felt confident in the most technical and specialized discussions, yet was not afraid of rhetorical generalizations. In his voluminous oeuvre, he appears as a sharp polemicist and a loving father, an ardent pupil but also a kind, inspiring teacher, a sober historian and a teller of wondrous tales. In view of all these different personae, erudite versatility is without any doubt a major characteristic of Plutarch's works. A Versatile Gentleman is dedicated to Luc Van der Stockt, professor emeritus of Greek language and literature at KU Leuven and a truly versatile gentleman. The volume aims to do justice to his and Plutarch's versatility by discussing the Chaeronean from many different angles. As such, it sheds new light on the coherence of, and the tensions in, Plutarch's thinking and writing.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Versatile Gentleman
• Subtitle: Consistency in Plutarch's Writing
• Author: Jan Opsomer, Geert Roskam, Geert Titchener
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 312
• EAN: 9789462700765
• ISBN: 9462700761
• ID: 16491654
• Publisher: Leuven University Press
• Weight: 622 g
• Dimensions: 166 × 241 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. June 2016

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