A fifteenth century Italian Plutarch (British Museum Add. ms. 22318)

Abstract The essay, On the Malice of Herodotus, which has come down to us in the corpus of Plutarch, has often been considered a problematic work because of its h...

Plutarch wrote twenty-three Greek Lives in his series of Parallel Lives—of these, ten were devoted to Athenians. Since Plutarch shared the hostile view of democracy of Polybius and...

This chapter investigates Plutarch’s On Flesh- Eating. This work, which contains two logoi, is traditionally taken as a highly rhetorical and ‘youthful’ piece which reflects Plutar...

This chapter turns to the treatment of gout and its symptoms in Plutarch and Lucian. Plutarch uses the figure of Philoktetes to help explain and justify his model of a body that is...

This chapter examines the layered worlds of the Italian food business and consumer marketplace in East Harlem. In order to understand the central role of food in the making of Ital...

This chapter examines how Italian restaurateurs used food to represent Italian American identity and nation outside the community. In the interwar years, the position of Italian Am...

Seeking Sanctuary explores a curious aspect of premodern English law: the right of felons to shelter in a church or ecclesiastical precinct, remaining safe from arrest and trial in...