The symposium has been the subject of research by many authors. Plutarch, in Quaestiones Convivales (Plut. Quaest. conv. I, 612d-e), states that the most famous thinkers considered it worthy of literary effort, to write down disputes at the table. He included Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle, Speusippus, Dion, Prytanis, Hieronymus and, most importantly, Epicurus among those who were able to make use of symposium threads. The composition of the Epicurean Symposium is quite different from the Platonic dialogue, which has not escaped the attention of the author of The Deipnosophists , Athenaeus. Presumably, it also differs quite a bit from Aristotle’s Symposium. The noticeable lack of passion for wine at the Hellenistic thinker contributed not only ...
The Placita focus primarily on the views of philosophers on the natural world organised by topics an...
My master’s thesis is devoted to one of the main philosophical schools, which is Epicureanism. In th...
The Placita focus primarily on the views of philosophers on the natural world organised by topics an...
Ancient catalogues of Aristotle’s writings (Diogenes Laertius, Hesychius) mention Symposium in one b...
Ancient catalogues of Aristotle’s writings (Diogenes Laertius, Hesychius) mention Symposium in one ...
The Philosopher's Banquet offers readers a coherent but diverse set of analyses of Plutarch's Table ...
The Philosopher's Banquet offers readers a coherent but diverse set of analyses of Plutarch's Table ...
This volume was inspired by a colloquium on Plutarch’s Table Talk (or Quaestiones convivales, QC), b...
Since time immemorial symposiums were held in the Hellenic Republic that, just like drinking wine, f...
Many topics and references are common to Plutarch and Athenaeus, who knew Plutarch's "Table Talks". ...
Many topics and references are common to Plutarch and Athenaeus, who knew Plutarch's "Table Talks". ...
International audienceParadigmatic figures and memorable episodes from the Greek and Roman past are ...
International audienceParadigmatic figures and memorable episodes from the Greek and Roman past are ...
This volume gathers an international team of renowned scholars in the field of ancient greek philoso...
This volume gathers an international team of renowned scholars in the field of ancient greek philoso...
The Placita focus primarily on the views of philosophers on the natural world organised by topics an...
My master’s thesis is devoted to one of the main philosophical schools, which is Epicureanism. In th...
The Placita focus primarily on the views of philosophers on the natural world organised by topics an...
Ancient catalogues of Aristotle’s writings (Diogenes Laertius, Hesychius) mention Symposium in one b...
Ancient catalogues of Aristotle’s writings (Diogenes Laertius, Hesychius) mention Symposium in one ...
The Philosopher's Banquet offers readers a coherent but diverse set of analyses of Plutarch's Table ...
The Philosopher's Banquet offers readers a coherent but diverse set of analyses of Plutarch's Table ...
This volume was inspired by a colloquium on Plutarch’s Table Talk (or Quaestiones convivales, QC), b...
Since time immemorial symposiums were held in the Hellenic Republic that, just like drinking wine, f...
Many topics and references are common to Plutarch and Athenaeus, who knew Plutarch's "Table Talks". ...
Many topics and references are common to Plutarch and Athenaeus, who knew Plutarch's "Table Talks". ...
International audienceParadigmatic figures and memorable episodes from the Greek and Roman past are ...
International audienceParadigmatic figures and memorable episodes from the Greek and Roman past are ...
This volume gathers an international team of renowned scholars in the field of ancient greek philoso...
This volume gathers an international team of renowned scholars in the field of ancient greek philoso...
The Placita focus primarily on the views of philosophers on the natural world organised by topics an...
My master’s thesis is devoted to one of the main philosophical schools, which is Epicureanism. In th...
The Placita focus primarily on the views of philosophers on the natural world organised by topics an...