Author: Roskam Geert Roskam

The question of the political relevance of philosophy, and of the role which the philosopher should play in the government of his state, was often discussed in Antiquity. Plato’s ideal of the philoso …

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 …

Plutarch was a brilliant Platonist, an erudite historian, a gifted author of highly polished literary dialogues, a priest of Apollo at Delphi, and a devoted politician in his hometown Chaeronea. He f …