Plutarch and his Contemporaries: Sharing the Roman Empire(14 Brill's Plutarch Studies)

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.

Table of 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  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

About the Author :
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.