Plutarch's Practical Ethics: The Social Dynamics of Philosophy

by Lieve Van Hoof (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $194.85

  A study of Plutarch's practical ethics, a group of texts within his Moralia designed to help powerful Greeks and Romans manage their ambitions and society's expectations successfully. Lieve Van Hoof depicts philosophy under the Roman Empire as a kind of symbolic capital engendering power and prestige for author and reader alike.