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Book SynopsisThe volume puts into the spotlight overlaps and points of intersection between Plutarch and other writers of the imperial period. It contains twenty-eight contributions which adopt a comparative approach and put into sharper relief ongoing debates and shared concerns, revealing a complex topography of rearrangements and transfigurations of inherited topics, motifs, and ideas. Reading Plutarch alongside his contemporaries brings out distinctive features of his thought and uncovers peculiarities in his use of literary and rhetorical strategies, imagery, and philosophical concepts, thereby contributing to a better understanding of the empire’s culture in general, and Plutarch in particular.
Table of ContentsPreface List of Contributors Part 1 Residents of Empire: Politics and Civic Life 1 Plutarch’s Flamininus: A Roman Hero for a New Greek World Jeffrey Beneker 2 Cattle in the Marketplace: The Abandoned Agora in Plutarch’s Life of Timoleon and Dio Chrysostom’s Euboean Discourse Colin Bailey 3 Speaking to the People in Theory and Action: Plutarch’s Political Precepts and Dio of Prusa’s Assembly Speeches Thierry Oppeneer 4 Avoiding Tyranny through Education: Plutarch’s, Dio Chrysostom’s, and Seneca’s Drugs for the Illness of the Roman Principatus Andrea Catanzaro Part 2 Among Philosophers: Debates and Disputes 5 “Cease Provoking the God, My Dear Planetiades”: How Plutarch Deals with Cynic Anti-Oracular Polemics Wim Nijs 6 Plutarch and Epicurus Richard Stoneman 7 The Wreck of an Ancient Titanic: Plutarch and Maximus of Tyre on Epicurean Pleasure Geert Roskam 8 Plutarch in the Middle of a Conflict between Epictetus and Favorinus Theofanis Tsiampokalos Part 3 Facing the (Super)natural 9 Some Chemical Mirabilia in Plutarch and Apuleius: Platonist Piety, Natural Science, and Entertainment Daniele Morrone 10 De fato of Ps.-Plutarch: Fate, Providence, Free Will Paola Volpe Cacciatore 11 Artemidoro, Onirocritica 4.72 e l’ultimo sogno premonitore di Plutarco Fabio Tanga Part 4 Readers and Spectators 12 Plutarch, Seneca, and the Greek Tragedy Giovanna Pace 13 Philoxeni in Plutarch and Athenaeus Krystyna Bartol 14 Plutarch, Lucian, and the Debate on How to Write History: A Matter of Paideia? Francesco Padovani 15 A Greek in a Roman Library Katarzyna Pietruczuk 16 Plutarch and Pliny the Elder: Rome, Art, and Artworks Eva Falaschi Part 5 Uses of the Past 17 Aspects of Cultural Memory in the Imperial Age: On Some Local Arcadian Traditions in Plutarch, Pliny the Elder, and Pausanias Maria Elena De Luna 18 Lycurgus of Sparta in the Imperial Age: Plutarch, Pausanias, and Lucian Martina Gatto 19 Beyond the Limits of Biography: A Comparative Analysis of Plutarch’s Lycurgus Iris Sulimani 20 Anecdotes and Rhetorical-Lexical Structures in Plutarch, Valerius Maximus, and Polyaenus Serena Citro 21 Exempla for the Emperors: A Comparison of the Prefaces to Valerius Maximus’ Facta et dicta memorabilia and Plutarch’s Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata Laurens van der Wiel Part 6 Cultural Practices: Inhabiting and Subverting the Norms 22 One Body, One Mind: Friendship in Plutarch’s De amicorum multitudine and Lucian’s Toxaris Laura Bottenberg 23 Permission to Speak? Cleobulina/Eumetis in Plutarch’s Symposium of the Seven Sages and Mary in the Pistis Sophia Dawn LaValle Norman 24 The Incomplete Feminisms of Plutarch and Musonius Rufus Tomohiko Kondo 25 Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis and Plutarch’s Quaestiones convivales: A Comparative Approach to the Banquet and to the Banqueters Delfim F. Leão 26 Plutarch and Lucian on Symposia Anna Ginestí Rosell 27 Plutarch and the Greek Reasons for Avoiding Pork by the Jews Chiara Di Serio 28 A Gentleman’s Health: Plutarch and the “Age of Hypochondria” Michiel Meeusen Bibliography Index Locorum General Index
