Plutarch and his Contemporaries

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.

• PrefaceList of ContributorsPart 1 Residents of Empire: Politics and Civic Life1 Plutarch’s Flamininus: A Roman Hero for a New Greek WorldJeffrey Beneker2 Cattle in the Marketplace: The Abandoned Agora in Plutarch’s Life of Timoleon and Dio Chrysostom’s Euboean DiscourseColin Bailey3 Speaking to the People in Theory and Action: Plutarch’s Political Precepts and Dio of Prusa’s Assembly SpeechesThierry Oppeneer4 Avoiding Tyranny through Education: Plutarch’s, Dio Chrysostom’s, and Seneca’s Drugs for the Illness of the Roman PrincipatusAndrea CatanzaroPart 2 Among Philosophers: Debates and Disputes5 “Cease Provoking the God, My Dear Planetiades”: How Plutarch Deals with Cynic Anti-Oracular PolemicsWim Nijs6 Plutarch and EpicurusRichard Stoneman7 The Wreck of an Ancient Titanic: Plutarch and Maximus of Tyre on Epicurean PleasureGeert Roskam8 Plutarch in the Middle of a Conflict between Epictetus and FavorinusTheofanis TsiampokalosPart 3 Facing the (Super)natural9 Some Chemical Mirabilia in Plutarch and Apuleius: Platonist Piety, Natural Science, and EntertainmentDaniele Morrone10 De fato of Ps.-Plutarch: Fate, Providence, Free WillPaola Volpe Cacciatore11 Artemidoro, Onirocritica 4.72 e l’ultimo sogno premonitore di PlutarcoFabio TangaPart 4 Readers and Spectators12 Plutarch, Seneca, and the Greek TragedyGiovanna Pace13 Philoxeni in Plutarch and AthenaeusKrystyna Bartol14 Plutarch, Lucian, and the Debate on How to Write History: A Matter of Paideia?Francesco Padovani15 A Greek in a Roman LibraryKatarzyna Pietruczuk16 Plutarch and Pliny the Elder: Rome, Art, and ArtworksEva FalaschiPart 5 Uses of the Past17 Aspects of Cultural Memory in the Imperial Age: On Some Local Arcadian Traditions in Plutarch, Pliny the Elder, and PausaniasMaria Elena De Luna18 Lycurgus of Sparta in the Imperial Age: Plutarch, Pausanias, and LucianMartina Gatto19 Beyond the Limits of Biography: A Comparative Analysis of Plutarch’s LycurgusIris Sulimani20 Anecdotes and Rhetorical-Lexical Structures in Plutarch, Valerius Maximus, and PolyaenusSerena Citro21 Exempla for the Emperors: A Comparison of the Prefaces to Valerius Maximus’ Facta et dicta memorabilia and Plutarch’s Regum et imperatorum apophthegmataLaurens van der WielPart 6 Cultural Practices: Inhabiting and Subverting the Norms22 One Body, One Mind: Friendship in Plutarch’s De amicorum multitudine and Lucian’s ToxarisLaura Bottenberg23 Permission to Speak? Cleobulina/Eumetis in Plutarch’s Symposium of the Seven Sages and Mary in the Pistis SophiaDawn LaValle Norman24 The Incomplete Feminisms of Plutarch and Musonius RufusTomohiko Kondo25 Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis and Plutarch’s Quaestiones convivales: A Comparative Approach to the Banquet and to the BanquetersDelfim F. Leão26 Plutarch and Lucian on SymposiaAnna Ginestí Rosell27 Plutarch and the Greek Reasons for Avoiding Pork by the JewsChiara Di Serio28 A Gentleman’s Health: Plutarch and the “Age of Hypochondria”Michiel MeeusenBibliographyIndex LocorumGeneral Index