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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, French, Italian, Spanish Series: Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 67.Publisher: Derlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017Description: 1 online resource (396 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110538113
  • 3110538113
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Space, time and language in Plutarch.DDC classification:
  • 888/.01 23
LOC classification:
  • PA4382 .I58 2014
Online resources:
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.
Summary: DieMillennium-Studien wollen Grenzen überschreiten, Grenzen zwischen den Epochen und regionalen Räumen wie auch Grenzen zwischen den Disziplinen. Millennium ist international, transdisziplinär und epochenübergreifend ausgerichtet. Das Herausgebergremium und der Beirat repräsentieren ein breites Spektrum von Fächern: Kunst- und literaturwissenschaftliche Beiträge kommen ebenso zu ihrem Rechtwie historische, theologische und philosophische, Beiträge zu den lateinischen und griechischen Kulturen ebenso wie zu den orientalischen.
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DieMillennium-Studien wollen Grenzen überschreiten, Grenzen zwischen den Epochen und regionalen Räumen wie auch Grenzen zwischen den Disziplinen. Millennium ist international, transdisziplinär und epochenübergreifend ausgerichtet. Das Herausgebergremium und der Beirat repräsentieren ein breites Spektrum von Fächern: Kunst- und literaturwissenschaftliche Beiträge kommen ebenso zu ihrem Rechtwie historische, theologische und philosophische, Beiträge zu den lateinischen und griechischen Kulturen ebenso wie zu den orientalischen.

Contributions in English, French, Italian, and Spanish.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

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