Space, Time and Language in Plutarch

✍ Scribed by Georgiadou, Aristoula; Oikonomopoulou, Katerina

• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 378
• Series: Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies 67
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

'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.

✦ Table of Contents

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

1. 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

1. 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

1. 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

1. 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

1. 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

1. 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

1. 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

1. 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

✦ Subjects

Language;Memory;Plutarch;Raum;Space;Sprache;Time;Zeit