Book contents
- Plutarch’s Prism
- Ideas in Context
- Plutarch’s Prism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Setting the Stage
- Part II Plutarch in Renaissance France and England
- Part III Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Plutarch
- Chapter 8 Shedding New Light on Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651)
- Chapter 9 Plutarch on Stage: Shakespeare, Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine
- Chapter 10 Plutarch in the Long Eighteenth Century with a Focus on British and Irish Political Thought
- Chapter 11 Plutarch in French Enlightenment Thought: The Abbé de Saint-Pierre, the Abbé Mably and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 8 - Shedding New Light on Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651)
from Part III - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Plutarch
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2022
Book contents
- Plutarch’s Prism
- Ideas in Context
- Plutarch’s Prism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Setting the Stage
- Part II Plutarch in Renaissance France and England
- Part III Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Plutarch
- Chapter 8 Shedding New Light on Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651)
- Chapter 9 Plutarch on Stage: Shakespeare, Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine
- Chapter 10 Plutarch in the Long Eighteenth Century with a Focus on British and Irish Political Thought
- Chapter 11 Plutarch in French Enlightenment Thought: The Abbé de Saint-Pierre, the Abbé Mably and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In Chapter 8 I explore key moments of the reception of Plutarch in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. I look at key aspects of the resonance of Plutarch in the work of Francis Bacon (1561–1626). I also discuss the significance of Philemon Holland’s (1552–1637) translation of Plutarch’s essay “How to Profit from your Enemies.” I show how this essay (which Hobbes read in the original Greek and Latin translations but also consulted in Holland’s version) can shed new light on Hobbes’ Leviathan (1651).
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- Plutarch's PrismClassical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800, pp. 293 - 317Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022