Plutarch and his Contemporaries

Sharing the Roman Empire

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The 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.
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Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright Page
Preface
List of Contributors
Part 1 Residents of Empire: Politics and Civic Life
1 Plutarch’s Flamininus: A Roman Hero for a New Greek World
2 Cattle in the Marketplace: The Abandoned Agora in Plutarch’s Life of Timoleon and Dio Chrysostom’s Euboean Discourse
3 Speaking to the People in Theory and Action: Plutarch’s Political Precepts and Dio of Prusa’s Assembly Speeches
4 Avoiding Tyranny through Education: Plutarch’s, Dio Chrysostom’s, and Seneca’s Drugs for the Illness of the Roman Principatus
Part 2 Among Philosophers: Debates and Disputes
5 “Cease Provoking the God, My Dear Planetiades”: How Plutarch Deals with Cynic Anti-Oracular Polemics
6 Plutarch and Epicurus
7 The Wreck of an Ancient Titanic: Plutarch and Maximus of Tyre on Epicurean Pleasure
8 Plutarch in the Middle of a Conflict between Epictetus and Favorinus
Part 3 Facing the (Super)natural
9 Some Chemical Mirabilia in Plutarch and Apuleius: Platonist Piety, Natural Science, and Entertainment
10 De fato of Ps.-Plutarch: Fate, Providence, Free Will
11 Artemidoro, Onirocritica 4.72 e l’ultimo sogno premonitore di Plutarco
Part 4 Readers and Spectators
12 Plutarch, Seneca, and the Greek Tragedy
13 Philoxeni in Plutarch and Athenaeus
14 Plutarch, Lucian, and the Debate on How to Write History: A Matter of Paideia?
15 A Greek in a Roman Library
16 Plutarch and Pliny the Elder: Rome, Art, and Artworks
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
18 Lycurgus of Sparta in the Imperial Age: Plutarch, Pausanias, and Lucian
19 Beyond the Limits of Biography: A Comparative Analysis of Plutarch’s Lycurgus
20 Anecdotes and Rhetorical-Lexical Structures in Plutarch, Valerius Maximus, and Polyaenus
21 Exempla for the Emperors: A Comparison of the Prefaces to Valerius Maximus’ Facta et dicta memorabilia and Plutarch’s Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata
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
23 Permission to Speak? Cleobulina/Eumetis in Plutarch’s Symposium of the Seven Sages and Mary in the Pistis Sophia
24 The Incomplete Feminisms of Plutarch and Musonius Rufus
25 Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis and Plutarch’s Quaestiones convivales: A Comparative Approach to the Banquet and to the Banqueters
26 Plutarch and Lucian on Symposia
27 Plutarch and the Greek Reasons for Avoiding Pork by the Jews
28 A Gentleman’s Health: Plutarch and the “Age of Hypochondria”
Back Matter
Bibliography
Indexes

Katarzyna Jażdżewska is a Classicist working on ancient Greek prose, specializing in ancient dialogue and imperial period literature (above all Plutarch and Dio Chrysostom). Her monograph Greek Dialogue in Antiquity: Post-Platonic Transformations was published in 2022 by Oxford University Press.

Filip Doroszewski is Assistant Professor of Classical Philology at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Poland. His recent publications include the co-edited volume Dionysus and Politics (Routledge, 2021) and a monograph on Nonnus' Paraphrasis entitled Orgies of Words (De Gruyter, 2022).

Contributors are: Colin Bailey Krystyna Bartol, Jeffrey Beneker, Laura Bottenberg, Andrea Catanzaro, Serena Citro, Maria Elena De Luna, Chiara Di Serio, Eva Falaschi, Martina Gatto, Anna Ginestí Rosell, Tomohiko Kondo, Dawn La Valle, Delfim F. Leão, Michiel Meeusen, Wim Nijs, Thierry Oppeneer, Pace Giovanna, Francesco Padovani, Katarzyna Pietruczuk, Geert Roskam, Richard Stoneman, Iris Sulimani, Theofanis Tsiampokalos, Laurens van der Wiel, Daniele Morrone, Fabio Tanga, Paola Volpe Cacciatore.
Preface
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
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Publisher:
Brill
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 492pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004687301

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