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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Georgiadou, Aristoula, Editor.

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

Contributor:

Georgiadou, Aristoula, editor.

Oikonomopoulou, Aikaterini, 1977- editor.

Series:

Millennium-Studien ; 67.

Millennium-Studien, 1862-1139 ; Volume 67 = Millennium Studies

Language:

English

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Aristoula Georgiadou and Katerina Oikonomopoulou, University of Patras, Greece.

Summary:

'Space and time' have been key concepts of investigation in the humanities in recent years. In the field of Classics in particular, they have led to the fresh appraisal of genres such as epic, historiography, the novel and biography, by enabling a close focus on how ancient texts invest their representations of space and time with a variety of symbolic and cultural meanings. This collection of essays by a team of international scholars seeks to make a contribution to this rich interdisciplinary field, by exploring how space and time are perceived, linguistically codified and portrayed in the biographical and philosophical work of Plutarch of Chaeronea (1st-2nd centuries CE). The volume’s aim is to show how philological approaches, in conjunction with socio-cultural readings, can shed light on Plutarch’s spatial terminology and clarify his conceptions of time, especially in terms of the ways in which he situates himself in his era’s fascination with the past. The volume’s intended readership includes Classicists, intellectual and cultural historians and scholars whose field of expertise embraces theoretical study of space and time, along with the linguistic strategies used to portray them in literary or historical texts.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of contributors

Preface

Introduction: Reading Plutarch through space, time and language

Space travel and time travel in Plutarch

Time and space in Plutarch’s Lives

Espace mémoriel et paysage monumental

Plutarch and tense: The present and the imperfect

Narrative time and space in Plutarch’s Life of Nicias

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

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

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

Is dualism a Greek word? Plutarch’s dualism as a cultural and historical phenomenon

Egyptian knowledge at Plutarch’s table: Out of the question?

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

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

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110538113

3110538113

9783110539479

3110539470

OCLC:

1009333515