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    "description": "Plutarch\u2019s De latenter vivendo is the only extant work from Antiquity in which Epicurus\u2019 famous ideal of an \u2018unnoticed life\u2019 (lathe biosas) is thematised as such. Moreover, the short rhetorical work provides a lot of interesting information about Plutarch\u2019s polemical strategies and about his own philosophical convictions in the domains of ethics, politics, metaphysics, and eschatology. In this book, Plutarch\u2019s anti-Epicurean polemic is understood against the background of the previous philosophical tradition. An examination of Epicurus\u2019 own position is followed by a discussion of Plutarch\u2019s polemical predecessors (Timocrates, Cicero, the early Stoics, and Seneca) and contemporaries (Epictetus), and by a systematical and detailed analysis of Plutarch\u2019s own arguments. The lemmatic commentary offers additional information and parallel passages (both from Plutarch\u2019s own works and from others authors) that cast a new light on the text. Geert Roskam obtained in 2001 a PhD in Classics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is Postdoctoral Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research \u2013 Flanders. He has published extensively on Hellenistic and Middle-Platonist philosophy.",
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