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Quaestiones Convivales: composizione e fonti, tradizione e riprese

  • Angelo Casanova

Though the Quaestiones Convivales may be considered a ‘minor work’, they nevertheless contain no less than nine books, in which Plutarch, following in the wake of Plato, Xenophon and others, collected in written form the most interesting of the learned conversations that took place during banquets. Since early times scholars have tried to determine whether this work mirrors conversations really held at the table and to what extent it was influenced by literary antecedents. A painstaking philological reading allows a glimpse into Plutarch’s method and leads to the conclusion that the several books should be dated at different times.

  • Keywords:
  • Table Talks,
  • Philosophical tradition,
  • Hypomnemata,
  • Collection,
  • Dating,
  • Imitations,
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Angelo Casanova

University of Florence, Italy

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Chapter Information

Chapter Title

Quaestiones Convivales: composizione e fonti, tradizione e riprese

Authors

Angelo Casanova

Language

Italian

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0824-6.20

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Publication Year

2025

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© 2025 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

Bibliographic Information

Book Title

I miei scritti su Plutarco

Book Subtitle

Raccolti, riveduti e corretti con bibliografia unificata

Authors

Angelo Casanova

Peer Reviewed

Number of Pages

366

Publication Year

2025

Copyright Information

© 2025 Author(s)

Content License

CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

Publisher Name

Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0824-6

ISBN Print

979-12-215-0823-9

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979-12-215-0824-6

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979-12-215-0825-3

Series Title

Studi e saggi

Series ISSN

2704-6478

Series E-ISSN

2704-5919

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