Space, Time and Language in Plutarch
| Titel: | Space, Time and Language in Plutarch |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2017 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (382 p.) |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies ; 67 |
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| ISBN: | 9783110537710 ; 9783110538113 ; 9783110539479 |
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- List of contributors
- p. xi
- Preface
- p. xiii
- Introduction: Reading Plutarch through space, time and language
- p. 1
- 1
- Moving through space and time in Plutarch
- Space travel and time travel in Plutarch
- p. 15
- Time and space in Plutarch's Lives
- p. 25
- 2
- Time manipulation and narrative signification
- Espace mémoriel et paysage monumental. Plutarque et l'Athènes de son temps
- p. 43
- Plutarch and tense: The present and the imperfect
- p. 55
- Narrative time and space in Plutarch's Life of Nicias
- p. 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'
- p. 79
- Poetry, extravagance, and the invention of the 'archaic' in Plutarch's On the Oracles of the Pythia
- p. 87
- Delphi, place and time in Plutarch's Lycurgus and Lysander
- p. 99
- Space, Delphi and the construction of the Greek past in Plutarch's Greek Questions
- p. 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
- p. 119
- Plutarch and the advent of Hellenism in Rome
- p. 127
- Creating paradigms for the politikoi: Bridging the gap in political space and time with pre-imperial heroes
- p. 137
- Greatness measured in time and space: The Agesilaus-Pompey
- p. 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
- p. 161
- Solon on the road
- p. 175
- Modelli del passato in due conferenze di Plutarco: De gloria Atheniensium e De audiendo
- p. 183
- Shifting boundaries: Philotimia in democratic Athens and in Plutarch's Lives
- p. 191
- 6
- Philosophy and religion between past and present
- Is dualism a Greek word? Plutarch's dualism as a cultural and historical phenomenon
- p. 205
- Egyptian knowledge at Plutarch's table: Out of the question?
- p. 215
- 7
- Space, time and notions of community
- Divisions in Greek culture: Cultural topoi in Plutarch's biographical practice
- p. 229
- The construction of a cosmopolitan space in Plutarch's On Exile
- p. 237
- Il significato del termine ¿¿¿¿¿ in Plutarco: lo straniero nella realtà dell'lmpero cosmopolita
- p. 247
- 8
- Sympotic spaces: forging links between past and present
- Past and present in Plutarch's Table Talk
- p. 257
- Sympotic space, hierarchy and Homeric quotation in Table Talk 1.2
- p. 271
- Ptutarque et la tradition rhétorique du banquet
- p. 279
- Theseis rather than quaestiones convivales
- p. 289
- 9
- Space, place, landscape: symbolic and metaphorical aspects
- Individuated gods and sacred space in Plutarch
- p. 299
- Espacio monumental y autopsia en las Vidas Paralelas de Plutarco
- p. 307
- Military space and paideia in the Lives of Pyrrhus and Marius
- p. 317
- Astronomical and political space: The sun's course and the statesman's power Plutarch and Dio
- p. 327
- Bibliography
- p. 335
- Index of subjects
- p. 367
- Index of ancient and modern authors
- p. 371
- Index of passages
- p. 373
