Space, time and language in Plutarch / edited by Aristoula Georgiadou and Katerina Oikonomopoulou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

International Plutarch Society. International Congress (10th : 2014 : Delphoi, Greece)

Contributor:

Georgiadou, Aristoula, editor.

Oikonomopoulou, Aikaterini, 1977- editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 67.

Millennium-Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr. = Millennium studies in the culture and history of the first millennium C. E. ; volume 67

Language:

English

French

Italian

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Plutarch--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Plutarch.

Greek literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Greek literature.

Space and time in literature--Congresses.

Space and time in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 382 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2017]

Language Note:

Contributions in English, French, Italian, and Spanish.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This collection of essays by a team of international scholars offers a wide-ranging examination of the key concepts of 'space and time' in the work of the Greek biographer and philosopher Plutarch of Chaeronea (1

Contents:

Introduction. Reading Plutarch through space, time and language / Aristoula Georgiadou and Katerina Oikonomopoulou

Moving through space and time in Plutarch. Space travel and time travel in Plutarch / Christopher Pelling

Time and space in Plutarch's Lives / Mark Beck

Time manipulation and narrative signification. Espace mémoriel et paysage monumental: Plutarque et l'Athènes de son temps / Françoise Frazier

Plutarch and tense: the present and the imperfect / Timothy E. Duff

Narrative time and space in Plutarch's Life of Nicias / Lucy E. Fletcher

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" / Frederick E. Brenk

Poetry, extravagance, and the invention of the "archaic" in Plutarch's On the oracles of the Pythia / Lawrence Kim

Delphi, place and time in Plutarch's Lycurgus and Lysander / Michele A. Lucchesi

Space, delphi and the construction of the Greek past in Plutarch's Greek questions / Katerina Oikonomopoulou

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 / Joseph Geiger

Plutarch and the advent of Hellenism in Rome / Joshua Pugh Ginn

Creating paradigms for the politikoi: bridging the gap in political space and time with pre-imperial heroes / Susan Jacobs

Greatness measured in time and space: the Agesilaus-Pompey / Eran Almagor

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 / Geert Roskam

Solon on the road / Paolo Desideri

Modelli del passato in due conferenze di Plutarco: De gloria atheniensium e De audiendo / Elisabetta Berardi

Shifting boundaries: philotimia in democratic Athens and in Plutarch's Lives / Myrto Aloumpi

Philosophy and religion between past and present. Is dualism a Greek word? Plutarch's dualism as a cultural and historical phenomenon / Bram Demulder

Egyptian knowledge at Plutarch's table: out of the question? / Michiel Meeusen

Space, time and notions of community

Divisions in Greek culture: cultural topoi in Plutarch's biographical practice / Evangelos Alexiou

The construction of a cosmopolitan space in Plutarch's On exile / Maria Vamvouri Ruffy

Significato del termine xenos in Plutarco: lo straniero nella realtà dell'Impero cosmopolita / Paola Volpe Cacciatore

Sympotic spaces: forging links between past and present. Past and present in Plutarch's Table talk / Anastasios G. Nikolaidis

Sympotic space, hierarchy and Homeric quotation in Table talk 1.2 / David Driscoll

Plutarque et la tradition rhétorique du banquet / Johann Goeken

Theseis rather than quaestiones convivales / José Antonio Fernández Delgado and Francisca Pordomingo

Space, place, landscape: symbolic and metaphorical aspects. Individuated gods and sacred space in Plutarch / Michael Lipka

Espacio monumental y autopsia en las Vidas Paralelas de Plutarco / Carlos Alcalde-Martín

Military space and paideia in the lives of Pyrrhus and Marius / Sophia Xenophontos

Astronomical and political space: the sun's course and the statesman's power in Plutarch and Dio / Andrea Catanzaro.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110539479

3110539470

Publisher Number:

99974329755

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