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In this contribution I try to answer the question to what extent Plutarch is still important for us today as a source for Epicurus' socio-political thinking. On the basis of a reasoned classification of all the relevant passages, I examine the strategies which Plutarch uses in the selection and presentation of the subject matter and in his verbatim quotations from Epicurus' texts. Non omnis moriar Horace, carm. 3,30,6 1. Plutarch never died. No doubt his body has long been decomposed and ren­ dered to Demeter, and perhaps his soul meanwhile faded away on the moon (cf., at least, De facie 943Asqq.). But even after so many centuries, his mind is still as brilliant as the sun. This appears not only from his own works, but also from the immense influence they exerted on later authors. It is well known indeed that Plutarch’s works, long before they have been collected and introduced into one corpus\ have been used again and again by later generations1 2. Already in Anti­ quity, authors such as Aulus Gellius3, PLOUTARCHOS, n.s4 (2006/2007) 67-82. ISSN 0258-655X On the gradual growth of the Corpus Plutarcheum (esp. regarding the Moralia), see J. Irigoin, ‘Histoire du texte des “Œuvres morales” de Plutarque’, in the general introduction of the Budé-edition of Plutarch’s Moralia, Paris, 1987 and F. Frazier, ‘Le corpus des Œuvres Morales, de Byzance à Amyot. Essai de synthèse’, in: Pallas, 67 (2005) 77-93. General studies of Plutarch’s Nachleben include R. Hirzel, Plutarch, Leipzig, 1912, 74199; K. Ziegler, Plutarchos von Chaironeia, in: RE 21,1, Stuttgart, 1951, 947-962; C.J. Gianakaris, Plutarch, New York, 1970, 129-150; I. Gallo (ed.), L’eredità culturale di Plutarco dairAntichità al Rinascimento. Atti del VII Convegno plutarcheo. MilanoGargnano, 28-30 maggio 1997, Napoli, 1998; J. Sirinelli, Plutarque de Chéronée. Un philosophe dans le siècle, Paris, 2000, 443-474. F. Stok, ‘Plutarco nella letteratura latina impériale’, in: I. Gallo (ed.), L’eredità cultur­ ale di Plutarco [cit. n. 2], 60-71 and L. Van der Stockt, ‘Plutarch’s Anger in Aullus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, I, 26’, in: J. Ribeiro Ferreira D. Ferreira Leão (eds.), Os fragmentos de Plutarco e a recepção da sua obra, Coimbra, 2003, 143-156. 1

Plutarch as a source for epicurean philosophy: another aspect of his nachleben