Plutarch and His Contemporaries : : Sharing the Roman Empire.

• Superior document: Brill's Plutarch Studies ; v.14
• Author: Jażdżewska, Katarzyna.
• TeilnehmendeR: Doroszewski, Filip.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Plutarch Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (511 pages)

The volume puts into the spotlight overlaps between Plutarch and other imperial writers. By examining the Plutarchan corpus within the context of contemporary literary production, it contributes to our understanding of the empire's culture in general, and Plutarch in particular.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎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 (Beneker) -- ‎2. Cattle in the Marketplace: The Abandoned Agora in Plutarch's Life of Timoleon and Dio Chrysostom's Euboean Discourse (Bailey) -- ‎3. Speaking to the People in Theory and Action: Plutarch's Political Precepts and Dio of Prusa's Assembly Speeches (Oppeneer) -- ‎4. Avoiding Tyranny through Education: Plutarch's, Dio Chrysostom's, and Seneca's Drugs for the Illness of the Roman Principatus (Catanzaro) -- ‎Part 2. Among Philosophers: Debates and Disputes -- ‎5. "Cease Provoking the God, My Dear Planetiades": How Plutarch Deals with Cynic Anti-Oracular Polemics (Nijs) -- ‎6. Plutarch and Epicurus (Stoneman) -- ‎7. The Wreck of an Ancient Titanic: Plutarch and Maximus of Tyre on Epicurean Pleasure (Roskam) -- ‎8. Plutarch in the Middle of a Conflict between Epictetus and Favorinus (Tsiampokalos) -- ‎Part 3. Facing the (Super)natural -- ‎9. Some Chemical Mirabilia in Plutarch and Apuleius: Platonist Piety, Natural Science, and Entertainment (Morrone) -- ‎10. De fato of Ps.-Plutarch: Fate, Providence, Free Will (Volpe Cacciatore) -- ‎11. Artemidoro, Onirocritica 4.72 e l'ultimo sogno premonitore di Plutarco (Tanga) -- ‎Part 4. Readers and Spectators -- ‎12. Plutarch, Seneca, and the Greek Tragedy (Pace) -- ‎13. Philoxeni in Plutarch and Athenaeus (Bartol) -- ‎14. Plutarch, Lucian, and the Debate on How to Write History: A Matter of Paideia? (Padovani) -- ‎15. A Greek in a Roman Library (Pietruczuk) -- ‎16. Plutarch and Pliny the Elder: Rome, Art, and Artworks (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 (De Luna).

‎18. Lycurgus of Sparta in the Imperial Age: Plutarch, Pausanias, and Lucian (Gatto) -- ‎19. Beyond the Limits of Biography: A Comparative Analysis of Plutarch's Lycurgus (Sulimani) -- ‎20. Anecdotes and Rhetorical-Lexical Structures in Plutarch, Valerius Maximus, and Polyaenus (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 (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 (Bottenberg) -- ‎23. Permission to Speak? Cleobulina/Eumetis in Plutarch's Symposium of the Seven Sages and Mary in the Pistis Sophia (LaValle Norman) -- ‎24. The Incomplete Feminisms of Plutarch and Musonius Rufus (Kondo) -- ‎25. Petronius' Cena Trimalchionis and Plutarch's Quaestiones convivales: A Comparative Approach to the Banquet and to the Banqueters (Leão) -- ‎26. Plutarch and Lucian on Symposia (Ginestí Rosell) -- ‎27. Plutarch and the Greek Reasons for Avoiding Pork by the Jews (Di Serio) -- ‎28. A Gentleman's Health: Plutarch and the "Age of Hypochondria" (Meeusen) -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Index Locorum -- ‎General Index.