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.

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