Space, Time and Language in Plutarch

book: Space, Time and Language in Plutarch

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2017

Space, Time and Language in Plutarch

Edited by: Aristoula Georgiadou and Katerina Oikonomopoulou

Volume 67 in the series Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies

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.

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

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: All those interested in Classics, Literary Studies, Ancient and Modern History, Biography, Philosophy, Cultural History.
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 382
Keywords: Space; Time; Language; Memory

eBook

Published: October 10, 2017
ISBN: 9783110539479

Hardcover

Published: October 10, 2017
ISBN: 9783110537710