Ethical Education in Plutarch by Xenophontos, Sophia -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Editions, abbreviations, and other conventions

Moralia Parallel Lives Other Lives

Symbols, orthography, and transliteration of Greek terms Introduction

1.1 Plutarch and education 1.2 What is significant about Plutarch’s ethical education? 1.3 Scope, structure, and approach of this study

1.1 Plutarch and his theory of nature vs nurture 1.2 Character change (metabolē) and character development (epanorthōsis) 1.3 Metabolē in the Parallel Lives 1.4 Epanorthōsis and its dual dimension 1.5 Conclusion

Chapter 2 Moral education between parents and children

2.1 Introduction 2.2 Plutarch and childhood: trivial comparisons or opportunities for adult moralism? 2.3 Parenthood in the Moralia and the Parallel Lives

2.3.1 Motherhood

2.3.1.1 Motherhood in the Moralia 2.3.1.2 Motherhood in the Parallel Lives

2.3.2 Fatherhood

2.3.2.1 Fathers as a requirement for the greatness of the son 2.3.2.2 Fatherhood as a stimulant to great actions 2.3.2.3 Fatherhood and power

Chapter 3 Moral training in the classroom

4.1 Female ethical education in the Moralia

4.1.1 Advice on marriage 4.1.2 Consolation to my wife 4.1.3 Virtues of women

4.2 Wives in the Parallel Lives 4.3 Conclusion

Chapter 5 Politics as a site of moral education

Chapter 6 Moralising in the military field: Plutarch and the ethics of generalship

Chapter 7 Educating over wine: moral pedagogy in Plutarch’s Table Talk

7.1 Introduction 7.2 Programmatic didacticism in the proems to the Books of Table Talk 7.3 Pedagogy in the symposium

7.3.1 Problem 1, Book 1 7.3.2 Problem 2, Book 1

Conclusion

Reading ethical education in Plutarch

Bibliography Index of names and topics Index of Plutarchan passages Index of passages in other authors Footnotes