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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

Rebecca Kingston
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University of Toronto
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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 Prism
Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800
, pp. 293 - 317
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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