Plutarch's Practical Ethics - Hoof, Lieve van
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A study of Plutarch's practical ethics, a group of texts within his Moralia designed to help powerful Greeks and Romans manage their ambitions and society's expectations successfully. Lieve Van Hoof depicts philosophy under the Roman Empire as a kind of symbolic capital engendering power and prestige for author and reader alike.

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A study of Plutarch's practical ethics, a group of texts within his Moralia designed to help powerful Greeks and Romans manage their ambitions and society's expectations successfully. Lieve Van Hoof depicts philosophy under the Roman Empire as a kind of symbolic capital engendering power and prestige for author and reader alike.
Autorenporträt
Dr Lieve Van Hoof obtained her Ph.D. in Classics from Leuven University (Belgium) in 2006. Since then, she has held a Lectureship in Greek and Latin Literature at the University of Exeter (U.K.), a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship of the Flemish Research Foundation (Belgium), and a Humboldt-Stipendium für erfahrene Wissenschaftler based in Bonn. Currently, she is a Fellow in Residence at the Lichtenberg Kolleg zu Göttingen.