'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.
Author(s): Georgiadou, Aristoula; Oikonomopoulou, Katerina
Series: Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies 67
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 382
Tags: Language;Memory;Plutarch;Raum;Space;Sprache;Time;Zeit
Frontmatter
Pages i-vi
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Contents
Pages vii-x
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List of contributors
Pages xi-xii
Preface
Pages xiii-xiv
Introduction: Reading Plutarch through space, time and language
Georgiadou, Aristoula
Pages 1-12
1. Moving through space and time in Plutarch
Space travel and time travel in Plutarch
Pelling, Christopher
Pages 15-24
Time and space in Plutarch’s Lives
Beck, Mark
Pages 25-40
2. Time manipulation and narrative signification
Espace mémoriel et paysage monumental
Frazier, Françoise
Pages 43-54
Plutarch and tense: The present and the imperfect
Duff, Timothy E.
Pages 55-66
Narrative time and space in Plutarch’s Life of Nicias
Fletcher, Lucy E.
Pages 67-76
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’
Brenk, Frederick E.
Pages 79-86
Poetry, extravagance, and the invention of the ‘archaic’ in Plutarch’s On the Oracles of the Pythia
Kim, Lawrence
Pages 87-98
Delphi, place and time in Plutarch’s Lycurgus and Lysander
Lucchesi, Michele A.
Pages 99-106
Space, Delphi and the construction of the Greek past in Plutarch’s Greek Questions
Oikonomopoulou, Katerina
Pages 107-116
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
Geiger, Joseph
Pages 119-126
Plutarch and the advent of Hellenism in Rome
Ginn, Joshua Pugh
Pages 127-136
Creating paradigms for the politikoi: Bridging the gap in political space and time with pre-imperial heroes
Jacobs, Susan
Pages 137-146
Greatness measured in time and space: The Agesilaus–Pompey
Almagor, Eran
Pages 147-158
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
Roskam, Geert
Pages 161-174
Solon on the road
Desideri, Paolo
Pages 175-182
Modelli del passato in due conferenze di Plutarco: De gloria Atheniensium e De audiendo
Berardi, Elisabetta
Pages 183-190
Shifting boundaries: Philotimia in democratic Athens and in Plutarch’s Lives
Aloumpi, Myrto
Pages 191-202
6. Philosophy and religion between past and present
Is dualism a Greek word? Plutarch’s dualism as a cultural and historical phenomenon
Demulder, Bram
Pages 205-214
Egyptian knowledge at Plutarch’s table: Out of the question?
Meeusen, Michiel
Pages 215-226
7. Space, time and notions of community
Divisions in Greek culture: Cultural topoi in Plutarch’s biographical practice
Alexiou, Evangelos
Pages 229-236
The construction of a cosmopolitan space in Plutarch’s On Exile
Ruffy, Maria Vamvouri
Pages 237-246
Il significato del termine ξένος in Plutarco: lo straniero nella realtà dell’Impero cosmopolita
Cacciatore, Paola Volpe
Pages 247-254
8. Sympotic spaces: forging links between past and present
Past and present in Plutarch’s Table Talk
Nikolaidis, Anastasios G.
Pages 257-270
Sympotic space, hierarchy and Homeric quotation in Table Talk 1.2
Driscoll, David
Pages 271-278
Plutarque et la tradition rhétorique du banquet
Goeken, Johann
Pages 279-288
Theseis rather than quaestiones convivales
Delgado, José Antonio Fernández / Pordomingo, Francisca
Pages 289-296
9. Space, place, landscape: symbolic and metaphorical aspects
Individuated gods and sacred space in Plutarch
Lipka, Michael
Pages 299-306
Espacio monumental y autopsia en las Vidas Paralelas de Plutarco
Alcalde-Martín, Carlos
Pages 307-316
Military space and paideia in the Lives of Pyrrhus and Marius
Xenophontos, Sophia
Pages 317-326
Astronomical and political space: The sun’s course and the statesman’s power in Plutarch and Dio
Catanzaro, Andrea
Pages 327-334
Bibliography
Pages 335-366
Index of subjects
Pages 367-370
Index of ancient and modern authors
Pages 371-372
Index of passages
Pages 373-382
