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Introduction / Aurelio Pérez Jiménez -- Part I. Plutarch's fragments. Plutarch's fr. 24 Sandbach; For the understanding of a lost text; "Whatever your destiny, to work is best" : Plutarch, fr. 44 Sandbach; Plutarch and the Commentary on Phaenomena of Aratus; The metabolē of the soul (Frags. 177-178 Sandbach) -- Part 2. Quaestiones convivales. Plutarch, Quaest. conv. 4.6: an example of religious syncretism; "Cicalata sul fascino volgarmente detto jettatura" : Plutarch, Quaest. conv. 5.7; Plutarchus in Plutarcho: De primo frigido and Quaest. conv. 6.4-5; Quaest. conv. 6.8 on bulimia : Plutarch's explanation for a current problem -- Part 3. Religion & philosophy. Plutarch's dikaiosynē in the writings against the Stoics; Is the god of the Stoics a philanthropist?; Fate and luck in Plutarch's works against the Stoics : an unresolved issue; The justice of the sage : polemic of Plutarch against the Stoics; Plutarch's De Iside et Osiride : a reconciliation between religion and myth -- Part 4. Plutarch's reception from humanism to modern age. Reflections on the translation of De liberis educandis by Guarino Guarini; The Latin translation of De genio Socratis by Naogeorgus; Poetic quotations in humanistic translatinos of De liberis educandis; "What is the best music, ancient or modern?:" Pietro Metastasio and De musica. "Philology, philosophy, commentary and reception in Plutarch's work are only some of the main topics discussed within a large academic output devoted to the writer of Chaeronea by Professor Paola Volpe Cacciatore. The volume is divided into four sections: Plutarchean Fragments, Quaestiones convivales, Religion & Philosophy, and Plutarch's Reception from Humanism to Modern Times. The eighteen studies collected in this volume, originally published in Italian and here translated into English, concern the Corpus Plutarcheum and, especially, some Plutarchean fragments, including Table-Talks, De Iside et Osiride, the treatises against the Stoics, De genio Socratis, De liberis educandis and De musica. The volume is a tribute to celebrate the lifelong study of Plutarch's work by Professor Paola Volpe Cacciatore, one of the most remarkable Plutarchean scholars of the last decades"--
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