Plutarch's cities / edited by Lucia Athanassaki and Frances B. Titchener.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Athanassaki, Lucia, 1957- editor.

Titchener, Frances B., 1954- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns in literature--Congresses.

Cities and towns in literature.

Plutarch--Criticism and interpretation.

Plutarch.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

This volume is the first comprehensive attempt to assess the significance of the polis in Plutarch's works from several perspectives, namely the polis as a physical entity, a lived experience, and a source of inspiration; as a historical and sociopolitical unit; as a theoretical construct and paradigm to think with.

Contents:

Introduction, Lucia Athanassaki and Frances Titchener ; Part I. Contemporary Cities: Travel, Sojourn, Autopsy, and Inspiration 1:Plutarch's Chaeronea, Ewen Bowie ; 2:Plutarch and Delphi, Philip Stadter ; 3:Plutarch and the City of Rome in Plutarch's Own Times, Paolo Desideri ; 4:City and Sanctuary in Plutarch, Joseph Geiger ; 5:Athenian Monumental Architecture, Iconography and Topography in Plutarch's De Gloria Atheniensium, Lucia Athanassaki ; Part II. Cities of the Past: History, Politics, and Society. 6:Stereotyping Sparta, Stereotyping Athens: Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plutarch, Christopher Pelling ; 7:Ritual Politics and Space Control in Plutarch's Alcibiades and Other Athenian Lives, Athena Kavoulaki ; 8:Alcibiades and the City, Timothy E. Duff ; 9:Athenian Civic Identities in Plutarch's Portrayals of Phocion and Demetrius of Phalerum: From the polites to the kosmopolites, Delfim Leão ; 10:Plutarch and Thebes, John Marincola ; 12:Plutarch's Northern Greek Cities, Katerina Panagopoulou ; 12:Plutarch's Troy: Three Approaches, Judith Mossman. Part III. Cities to Think With. 13:The City and the Self in Plutarch, Alexei V. Zadorojnyi ; 14:The City and the Ship: Reception and the Use of a Metaphor in Plutarch's Parellel Lives, Aurelio Pérez Jiménez ; 15:The Place of the polis in Plutarch's Political Thinking, Geert Roskam ; 16:Plutarch's Civitas Dei, Luc Van der Stockt ; 17:Plutarch on Superstition, Atheism, and the City, Tim Whitmarsh ; Part IV. Afterword. 18:Plutarch's Cities: Where To?, Lucia Athanassaki.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Athanassaki, Lucia Plutarch's Cities

ISBN:

0-19-195322-9

0-19-267616-4

0-19-267617-2