Space, time and language in Plutarch [online] / Aristoula Georgiadou, Katerina Oikonomopoulou

Frontmatter Contents List of contributors Preface Introduction: Reading Plutarch through space, time and language

1. Moving through space and time in Plutarch Space travel and time travel in Plutarch Time and space in Plutarch’s Lives

2. Time manipulation and narrative signification Espace mémoriel et paysage monumental Plutarch and tense: The present and the imperfect Narrative time and space in Plutarch’s Life of Nicias

3. Religious locales as places of reflection on language, discourse and time Space, time, and language in On the Oracles of the Pythia: ‘3,000 years of history, never proved wrong’ Poetry, extravagance, and the invention of the ‘archaic’ in Plutarch’s On the Oracles of the Pythia Delphi, place and time in Plutarch’s Lycurgus and Lysander Space, Delphi and the construction of the Greek past in Plutarch’s Greek Questions

4. Models of the past I: configurations of memory and history for Plutarch’s imperial readers Greeks and the Roman past in the Second Sophistic: The case of Plutarch Plutarch and the advent of Hellenism in Rome Creating paradigms for the politikoi: Bridging the gap in political space and time with pre-imperial heroes Greatness measured in time and space: The Agesilaus–Pompey

5. Models of the past II: Plutarch and the classical era Discussing the past: Moral virtue, truth, and benevolence in Plutarch’s On the Malice of Herodotus Solon on the road Modelli del passato in due conferenze di Plutarco: De gloria Atheniensium e De audiendo Shifting boundaries: Philotimia in democratic Athens and in Plutarch’s Lives

6. Philosophy and religion between past and present Is dualism a Greek word? Plutarch’s dualism as a cultural and historical phenomenon Egyptian knowledge at Plutarch’s table: Out of the question?

7. Space, time and notions of community Divisions in Greek culture: Cultural topoi in Plutarch’s biographical practice The construction of a cosmopolitan space in Plutarch’s On Exile Il significato del termine ξένος in Plutarco: lo straniero nella realtà dell’Impero cosmopolita

8. Sympotic spaces: forging links between past and present Past and present in Plutarch’s Table Talk Sympotic space, hierarchy and Homeric quotation in Table Talk 1.2 Plutarque et la tradition rhétorique du banquet Theseis rather than quaestiones convivales

9. Space, place, landscape: symbolic and metaphorical aspects Individuated gods and sacred space in Plutarch Espacio monumental y autopsia en las Vidas Paralelas de Plutarco Military space and paideia in the Lives of Pyrrhus and Marius Astronomical and political space: The sun’s course and the statesman’s power in Plutarch and Dio Bibliography Index of subjects Index of ancient and modern authors
Index of passages

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