Peripatetic Knowledge in Plutarch's Table Talk

• Main Author: Οικονομοπούλου, Κατερίνα
• Other Authors: Klotz, Frieda
• Format: Book Chapter/Part of Publication
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2020
• Subjects: Plutarch; Table Talk; Peripatetic philosophers; Aristotle; Πλούταρχος; Συμποσιακά Προβλήματα; Περιπατητικοί φιλόσοφοι; Αριστοτέλης

The chapter discusses the role of Aristotle and his Peripatetic successors as sources of philosophical and scientific knowledge within Plutarch's 'Table Talk' (1st-2nd c. CE), with a particular focus on the oral strategies of sharing and transmission of Peripatetic learning within the...