Greeks and the Roman past in the Second Sophistic: The case of Plutarch

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of contributors xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Introduction: Reading Plutarch through space, time and language 1
6. 1. Moving through space and time in Plutarch
7. Space travel and time travel in Plutarch 15
8. Time and space in Plutarch’s Lives 25
9. 2. Time manipulation and narrative signification
10. Espace mémoriel et paysage monumental 43
11. Plutarch and tense: The present and the imperfect 55
12. Narrative time and space in Plutarch’s Life of Nicias 67
13. 3. Religious locales as places of reflection on language, discourse and time
14. Space, time, and language in On the Oracles of the Pythia: ‘3,000 years of history, never proved wrong’ 79
15. Poetry, extravagance, and the invention of the ‘archaic’ in Plutarch’s On the Oracles of the Pythia 87
16. Delphi, place and time in Plutarch’s Lycurgus and Lysander 99
17. Space, Delphi and the construction of the Greek past in Plutarch’s Greek Questions 107
18. 4. Models of the past I: configurations of memory and history for Plutarch’s imperial readers
19. Greeks and the Roman past in the Second Sophistic: The case of Plutarch 119
20. Plutarch and the advent of Hellenism in Rome 127
21. Creating paradigms for the politikoi: Bridging the gap in political space and time with pre-imperial heroes 137
22. Greatness measured in time and space: The Agesilaus–Pompey 147
23. 5. Models of the past II: Plutarch and the classical era
24. Discussing the past: Moral virtue, truth, and benevolence in Plutarch’s On the Malice of Herodotus 161
25. Solon on the road 175
26. Modelli del passato in due conferenze di Plutarco: De gloria Atheniensium e De audiendo 183
27. Shifting boundaries: Philotimia in democratic Athens and in Plutarch’s Lives 191
28. 6. Philosophy and religion between past and present
29. Is dualism a Greek word? Plutarch’s dualism as a cultural and historical phenomenon 205
30. Egyptian knowledge at Plutarch’s table: Out of the question? 215
31. 7. Space, time and notions of community
32. Divisions in Greek culture: Cultural topoi in Plutarch’s biographical practice 229
33. The construction of a cosmopolitan space in Plutarch’s On Exile 237
34. Il significato del termine ξένος in Plutarco: lo straniero nella realtà dell’Impero cosmopolita 247
35. 8. Sympotic spaces: forging links between past and present
36. Past and present in Plutarch’s Table Talk 257
37. Sympotic space, hierarchy and Homeric quotation in Table Talk 1.2 271
38. Plutarque et la tradition rhétorique du banquet 279
39. Theseis rather than quaestiones convivales 289
40. 9. Space, place, landscape: symbolic and metaphorical aspects
41. Individuated gods and sacred space in Plutarch 299
42. Espacio monumental y autopsia en las Vidas Paralelas de Plutarco 307
43. Military space and paideia in the Lives of Pyrrhus and Marius 317
44. Astronomical and political space: The sun’s course and the statesman’s power in Plutarch and Dio 327
45. Bibliography 335
46. Index of subjects 367
47. Index of ancient and modern authors 371
48. Index of passages 373