Space, Time and Language in Plutarch

Space, Time and Language in Plutarch

In: Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies, 67

Edited by: Aristoula Georgiadou and Katerina Oikonomopoulou

De Gruyter | 2017

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110539479

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'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.

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

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
Contents Free access PDF PDF	vii
List of contributors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	xi
Preface Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	xiii
Introduction: Reading Plutarch through space, time and language Aristoula Georgiadou Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
1. Moving through space and time in Plutarch
Space travel and time travel in Plutarch Christopher Pelling Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	15
Time and space in Plutarch’s Lives Mark Beck Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	25
2. Time manipulation and narrative signification
Espace mémoriel et paysage monumental Françoise Frazier Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	43
Plutarch and tense: The present and the imperfect Timothy E. Duff Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	55
Narrative time and space in Plutarch’s Life of Nicias Lucy E. Fletcher Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	67
3. 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 Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	79
Poetry, extravagance, and the invention of the ‘archaic’ in Plutarch’s On the Oracles of the Pythia Lawrence Kim Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	87
Delphi, place and time in Plutarch’s Lycurgus and Lysander Michele A. Lucchesi Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	99
Space, Delphi and the construction of the Greek past in Plutarch’s Greek Questions Katerina Oikonomopoulou Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	107
4. 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 Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	119
Plutarch and the advent of Hellenism in Rome Joshua Pugh Ginn Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	127
Creating paradigms for the politikoi: Bridging the gap in political space and time with pre-imperial heroes Susan Jacobs Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	137
Greatness measured in time and space: The Agesilaus–Pompey Eran Almagor Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	147
5. 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 Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	161
Solon on the road Paolo Desideri Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	175
Modelli del passato in due conferenze di Plutarco: De gloria Atheniensium e De audiendo Elisabetta Berardi Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	183
Shifting boundaries: Philotimia in democratic Athens and in Plutarch’s Lives Myrto Aloumpi Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	191
6. Philosophy and religion between past and present
Is dualism a Greek word? Plutarch’s dualism as a cultural and historical phenomenon Bram Demulder Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	205
Egyptian knowledge at Plutarch’s table: Out of the question? Michiel Meeusen Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	215
7. Space, time and notions of community
Divisions in Greek culture: Cultural topoi in Plutarch’s biographical practice Evangelos Alexiou Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	229
The construction of a cosmopolitan space in Plutarch’s On Exile Maria Vamvouri Ruffy Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	237
Il significato del termine ξένος in Plutarco: lo straniero nella realtà dell’Impero cosmopolita Paola Volpe Cacciatore Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	247
8. Sympotic spaces: forging links between past and present
Past and present in Plutarch’s Table Talk Anastasios G. Nikolaidis Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	257
Sympotic space, hierarchy and Homeric quotation in Table Talk 1.2 David Driscoll Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	271
Plutarque et la tradition rhétorique du banquet Johann Goeken Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	279
Theseis rather than quaestiones convivales José Antonio Fernández Delgado and Francisca Pordomingo Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	289
9. Space, place, landscape: symbolic and metaphorical aspects
Individuated gods and sacred space in Plutarch Michael Lipka Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	299
Espacio monumental y autopsia en las Vidas Paralelas de Plutarco Carlos Alcalde-Martín Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	307
Military space and paideia in the Lives of Pyrrhus and Marius Sophia Xenophontos Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	317
Astronomical and political space: The sun’s course and the statesman’s power in Plutarch and Dio Andrea Catanzaro Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	327
Bibliography Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	335
Index of subjects Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	367
Index of ancient and modern authors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	371
Index of passages Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	373

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