Why did Plutarch write against Colotes? Reading the prooemium of Πρὸς Κωλώτην
This chapter discusses the reasons and circumstances which led Plutarch to compose a detailed and systematic response to an otherwise unknown polemical book by Colotes, a relatively obscure Epicurean of the 3rd century bc. It offers a close reading of the prooemium of the Adversus Colotem in which P...
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2011
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