A Life Devoted to Plutarch: Philology, Philosophy, and Reception: Selected Essays by Paola Volpe Cacciatore

Philology, philosophy, commentary and reception in Plutarch’s work are only some of the main topics discussed within a large academic output devoted to the writer of Chaeronea by Professor Paola Volpe Cacciatore. The volume is divided into four sections: Plutarchean Fragments, Quaestiones convivales, Religion & Philosophy, and Plutarch’s Reception from Humanism to Modern Times. The eighteen studies collected in this volume, originally published in Italian and here translated into English, concern the Corpus Plutarcheum, including Table-Talks, De Iside et Osiride, the treatises against the Stoics, De genio Socratis, De liberis educandis, De musica, and some Plutarchean fragments. The volume is a tribute to celebrate the lifelong study of Plutarch’s work by Professor Paola Volpe Cacciatore, one of the most remarkable Plutarchean scholars of the last decades.