With Unperfumed Voice

Classical scholars tend to work with a narrow focus, specialising on particular subject areas. Frederick Brenk is an exception: he is still a specialist, but, as this third volume of his collected essays makes clear, a multiple specialist, as skilled in dealing with visual materials as with texts, with epigraphy as with prosopography, with Christian writers as with pagan, with Egypt as with Greece, with style and language as with philosophy and religion. Few scholars have such wide learning, and fewer still can use it to weave together insights from so many different ways of thinking, feeling, seeing, and writing.


Contents
Plutarch: Plutarch and His Age — Two Case Studies in Paideia — The Rhetoric of Exaggeration in Plutarch’s Erotikos — Plutarch, Judaism, and Christianity — Plutarch and the Egyptian Cults — Religion under Trajan — Case Studies in the Moralia, the Lives as Case Studies et al.
Philosophy: The Gymnasia at Athens in the First Century A.D. — Motives for Self-sufficiency in the Cynics and Others — Dio on the Simple and Self-Sufficient Life — Eschatology in Plato’s Laws and First-Century Platonism
Religion: Plutarch’s Allegorization of Egyptian Religion — Isis in the Isaeum at Pompeii et al.
Magic: The kai su Stele in the Fitzwilliam Museum
New Testament and Early Christianity: Paul and the Philosophy of His Time — Rhetoric and Progress in Virtue in Seneca and Paul — The Areopagos Speech of Paul et al.
Biography: Édouard des Places