An Imperial Heritage: The Religious Spirit of Plutarch of Chaironeia
by Frederick E. Brenk, S. J., Rome
Contents
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| Introduction |
249 |
I. Life |
250 |
II. The Development of Plutarch's Religious Ideas, and His Religious Works |
256 |
- 'De superstitione' |
260 |
III. Plutarch's Idea of God in the Light of Alexandrian Middle Platonism |
262 |
IV. Plutarch's Daimonology |
275 |
| V. 'De Iside et Osiride': Allegorical Interpretation and Syncretism |
294 |
- Plutarch's treatment of the Isis cult |
301 |
VI. Plutarch and the Stoics |
304 |
VII. Religion in the 'Lives': Daimon and Tyche |
305 |
VIII. Omens and Portents |
316 |
IX. Dreams |
322 |
X. Divine Retribution |
327 |
XI. Delphi |
330 |
XII. The Mythological Lives and Roman Religion |
336 |
| Addenda |
342 |
| Additional Plutarch Bibliography |
347 |
| Indices |
