TY - BOOK ID - 77741770 TI - A commentary on Plutarch's De latenter vivendo PY - 2007 SN - 9461660197 9789461660190 9789058676030 905867603X PB - Leuven : Leuven University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Ethics, Ancient. KW - Ancient ethics KW - Epicurus. KW - Plutarch. KW - Epicurus KW - Ἐπίκουρος KW - Epikouros KW - Epikuros KW - Ėpikur KW - Epiḳoros KW - Epicuro KW - Abīqūr KW - Yibijiulu KW - Epicure KW - Epʻikʻurosŭ KW - Ethics, Ancient UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77741770 AB - Plutarch''s De latenter vivendo is the only extant work from Antiquity in which Epicurus'' famous ideal of an ''unnoticed life'' (lathe biosas) is thematised as such. Moreover, the short rhetorical work provides a lot of interesting information about Plutarch''s polemical strategies and about his own philosophical convictions in the domains of ethics, politics, metaphysics, and eschatology.In this book, Plutarch''s anti-Epicurean polemic is understood against the background of the previous philosophical tradition. An examination of Epicurus'' own position is followed by a discussion of Plutarc ER -