The Philosopher's Banquet: Plutarch's Table Talk in the Intellectual Culture of the Roman Empire by Frieda [Editor]; Oikonomopoulou, Katerina [Editor]; Klotz ISBN 13: 9780199588954

Oxford University Press, USA. Used - Like New. 2011. Cloth, dj., 279 pp. (Subject: Ancient, Roman Literature.)

Oxford University Press, USA. Used - Very Good. 2011. Hardcover. Very Good.

Oxford University Press, USA. New. 2011. Cloth, dj. (Subject: Ancient, Roman Literature.)

Oxford University Press. Very Good+ in Fine dust jacket. 2011. Hardcover. 0199588953 . Upper corners bumped else fine. ; 288 pages; The Philosopher's Banquet is the first sustained study of Plutarch's Table Talk, a Greek prose text which is a combination of philosophical dialogue (in the style of Plato's Symposium) and miscellany. The form of Table Talk was imitated by several later Greek and Roman imperial authors (such as Aulus Gellius, Athenaeus, and Macrobius) , making it a vital part of the early Roman Empire's literary and cultural history. Similarly, the great variety of its contents links it with a broader imperial cultural trend, that of systematizing knowledge, which features increasingly prominently as a subject of scholarly study in both classics and the history of science. The contributors to The Philosopher's Banquet offer a range of methodologically innovative and sophisticated readings of Table Talk's literary form, themes, cultural background, and… Read More