Plutarch's Reception in the Church Fathers

Huian, Georgiana (2022). Plutarch's Reception in the Church Fathers. In: Hirsch-Luipold, Rainer (ed.) Plutarch and the New Testament in Their Religio-Philosophical Contexts. Bridging Discourses in the World of the Early Roman Empire. Brill's Plutarch Studies: Vol. 9 (pp. 212-236). Leiden-Boston: Brill 10.1163/9789004505070_012

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Plutarch’s reception in the Church Fathers is a field inviting thorough investigation and reflection. This paper proposes, firstly, a brief mapping of the methodological questions and current findings achieved in this field. Secondly, it addresses Plutarch’s presence in the Church Fathers through common themes and topoi, similarities in argumentation, borrowing of exempla, and the use of common conceptual frames. Analysing some writings of the Greek and Latin Fathers of the fourth and fifth century, I intend to show that the references to Plutarch range from direct influence to implicit polemic, touching the treatment of ethical, cosmological, and theological themes.

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