Between Heathenism and Christianity - College of Stoic Philosophers

Plutarch and the Greece of His Age
Even the great Thesaurus of Stephanus often leaves
one sadly in the lurch; besides, it is both too exten
sive and too expensive for general use. What we
need is a careful lexicographical and grammatical
study of the individual authors and the presentation
of the results in as succinct a form as possible.
It is a pleasure to note the signs of a revival in this
quarter for that it is not a misnomer to speak of a
revival will be evident to those who know that the
reader of some of the authors above named, together
with others, is largely compelled to rely on texts that
are more than half a century old, in some cases much
more. In this laudable work of rediscovery, Professor
Mahaffy in Great Britain, and Professor Krumbacher
in Germany, may be regarded as the leaders. The
former, by his various works upon the Greeks under
Roman sway, and the latter by his masterly GcschichtedcrByzantinischcn
Litterahirand his Byzantinische
Zeitschrift have done more than any two writers in
the present century to awaken an interest in a sub
ject that has long been in a comatose condition. The
present volume, though bearing upon the general
theme, is concerned with but a small portion of it. I
have tried to throw a little light upon two authors, in
whose writings are many passages that put them in
some sort of relation to nascent Christianity. While
it is almost absolutely certain that neither Seneca
nor Plutarch had any knowledge of the new doctrines
first preached in their time, it ought surely to be a
matter of interest to every thinking man to note how
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