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