Space, time and language in Plutarch /

Space, time and language in Plutarch / edited by Aristoula Georgiadou and Katerina Oikonomopoulou. - 1 online resource (396 pages) - 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 . - Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 67. .

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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: Plutarque et l'Athènes de son temps / Françoise Frazier -- 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 / 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 / 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 / Significato del termine xenos 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 / Aristoula Georgiadou and Katerina Oikonomopoulou -- Christopher Pelling -- Mark Beck -- Timothy E. Duff -- Lucy E. Fletcher -- Frederick E. Brenk -- Lawrence Kim -- Michele A. Lucchesi -- Space, delphi and the construction of the Greek past in Plutarch's Greek questions / Katerina Oikonomopoulou -- Joseph Geiger -- Joshua Pugh Ginn -- Susan Jacobs -- Greatness measured in time and space: the Agesilaus-Pompey / Eran Almagor -- Geert Roskam -- Paolo Desideri -- Elisabetta Berardi -- Myrto Aloumpi -- Bram Demulder -- Michiel Meeusen -- Evangelos Alexiou -- Maria Vamvouri Ruffy -- Paola Volpe Cacciatore -- Anastasios G. Nikolaidis -- David Driscoll -- Johann Goeken -- José Antonio Fernández Delgado and Francisca Pordomingo -- Michael Lipka -- Carlos Alcalde-Martín -- Sophia Xenophontos -- Andrea Catanzaro. Introduction. Moving through space and time in Plutarch. Time manipulation and narrative signification. Religious locales as places of reflection on language, discourse and time. Models of the past I: configurations of memory and history for Plutarch's Imperial readers. Models of the past II: Plutarch and the Classical era. Philosophy and religion between past and present. Space, time and notions of community -- Sympotic spaces: forging links between past and present. Space, place, landscape: symbolic and metaphorical aspects.

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Plutarch--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.


Greek literature--History and criticism--Congresses.
Space and time in literature--Congresses.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.


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