Plutarch

Dialog über die Liebe

Amatorius
Edited by Werner G. Jeanrond, Barbara Feichtinger, Fritz Graf and Jan Opsomer
Introduction by Herwig Görgemanns
[Dialogue On Love. Amatorius.]
2006. 333 pages.
DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-156445-1
Sponsored by: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
Summary
Plutarch gives Plato's philosophy of love a new direction by applying its basic ideas to marital love and by defending the significance of sexuality for personality development and human bonding. This work is presented here with a literary-oriented introduction, the Greek text has been checked carefully, the German translation aims to be readable and is supplemented by detailed notes. Four essays by various authors are included.

Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia (SAPERE)