10th Congress of the International Plutarch
Society Space, Time and Language in Plutarch's Visions of Greek Culture
Programme
Friday, 16 May 2014
8:30-9:30 Registration
9:30-10:00 Welcome and introduction by the organisers
10:00-11:30 Session 1: Approaching space, time, and language in Plutarch’s visions of Greek culture (D)
10:00-10:30 Chris Pelling (Oxford): Space-travelling in Plutarch
10:30-11:00 Joseph Geiger (Jerusalem): Greeks and the Roman past in the Second Sophistic: The case of Plutarch
11:00-11:30 Judith Mossman (Nottingham): Plutarch and the alphabet
11:30-12:00 COFFEE BREAK
12:00-13:30
Session 2: Landscapes and memory (D)
Session 3: Landscapes of war (L)
Session 4: Geographical and archaeological perspectives (G)
Session 2
12:00-12:30 Françoise Frazier (Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Défense, Institut Universitaire de France): Can we speak of a “monumental landscape” of Athens in Plutarch's work?
12:30-13:00 Christophe Chandezon (Montpellier): Plutarch and the Boiotian landscapes as tools for recording Greek, Roman, ethnic, civic and familial memories
13:00-13:30 Devin Oliver (Edinburgh): Battleground and stepping stone: Syracuse and Sicily in Plutarch's ‘Parallel Lives’
Session 3
12:00-12:30 Sophia Xenophontos (Brussels): The military field as a space of interaction between Greeks, Romans, and barbarians
12:30-13:00 Nikos Charalabopoulos (Patras): Thermopylae as chronotope: Plutarch's narrative of the battle of 191 BC
13:00-13:30 Joshua Pugh Ginn (Cambridge): Plutarch and the advent of Hellenism in Rome
Session 4
12:00-12:30 Carlos Alcalde Martín (Málaga): Autopsía cases and its functions in Plutarch’s ‘Parallel Lives’
12:30-13:00 Elias Mariolakos (Athens): Are the geographical descriptions of Plutarch correct? A geomythological approach
13:00-13:30 Anastasia Baukova (Lviv): Archaeology in the ancient world: reconstructed time and the world in Plutarch’s ‘Vitae Parallelae’
13:30-15:00 LUNCH
15:00-16:30
Session 5: Plutarchan symposia I: exploring the past (D)
Session 6: Plutarchan symposia II: conversing with the Other (L)
Session 7: Visions of Sparta (G)
Session 5
15:00-15:30 Frances B. Titchener (Utah State): Dinner with Plutarch: what happens in Chaeronea stays in Chaeronea
15:30-16:00 A. G. Nikolaidis (Crete): Past and present in Plutarch’s ‘Table Talks’
16:00-16:30 David F. Driscoll (Stanford): Plutarch for the pepaideumenoi: Homeric scholarship and ‘Table-Talk’ I.2
Session 6
15:00-15:30 Daniel Richter (California): Who is the God of the Jews? Syncretism and cosmopolitanism in Plutarch’s ‘Table Talks’
15:30-16:00 Anna Ginestí Rosell (Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): Disturbed community: dynamics of conversation in Plutarch's ‘Quaestiones Convivales’
16:00-16:30 Michiel Meeusen (Leuven): Egyptian knowledge at Plutarch’s table: out of the Question?
Session 7
15:00-15:30 Evangelos Alexiou (Thessaloniki): The divisions of Greek culture in Plutarch: cultural topoi in biographical practice
15:30-16:00 Michele Lucchesi (Oxford): Biographies without history: time-less Sparta in Plutarch’s ‘Apophthegmata Laconica’
16:00-16:30 Eran Almagor (Ben Gurion): Greatness measured in time and space: the ‘Agesilaus-Pompey’
16:30-17:00 COFFEE BREAK
17:00-18:30
Session 8: Facets of the Athenian statesman (D)
Session 9: Models of the statesman across time (L)
Session 10: Spaces of religious interaction (G)
Session 8
17:00-17:30 Gabriela Vanotti (Piemonte): Plutarch and the Athenian demagogues
17:30-18:00 Athena Papachrysostomou (Patras): Mapping the Athenian democracy: from Theseus to Ephialtes through Plutarch’s eyes
18:00-18:30 Ana Ferreira (Porto): Pericles: the Athenian statesman as the result of past and present interaction
Session 9
17:00-17:30 Federicomaria Muccioli (Bologna): Revisiting the Greek past: Plutarch’s archaic tyrants
17:30-18:00 Susan Jacobs (Columbia): Creating models for the ‘politikos’ under Rome
18:00-18:30 Andrea Catanzaro (Genoa): Astronomical and political space: the course of the sun and the power of the statesman in Plutarch’s ‘Ad Principem Ineruditum’ and in the III ‘Discourse on Kingship’ of Dio Chrysostom
Session 10
17:00-17:30 Frederick E. Brenk (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome): Space, time, and language in ‘On the Oracles of Pythia’
17:30-18:00 Michael Lipka (Patras): Individuated gods and sacred space in Plutarch
18:00-18:30 Elsa Giovanna Simonetti (Padova): The value of the past for the present and the future: a view on Plutarch's account of divination
20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER
Saturday, 17 May 2014
9:00-10:30
Session 11: Philosophical dimensions (D)
Session 12: Cultural/religious (re)constructions (G)
Session 11
11:30-12:00 Aurelio Pérez Jiménez (Málaga): Espacios imaginarios en Plutarco: Interpretación místico-literaria de la superficie celeste de la luna (‘De Facie’ 944C-945B)
12:00-12:30 Alexei V. Zadorojnyi (Liverpool): Mind the store: the concept of tamieion in Plutarch
12:30-13:00 Israel Muñoz Gallarte (Córdoba):
The origin of Plutarch's souls in context
Session 12
9:00-9:30 Marta González (Málaga): Human sacrifices in Plutarch’s ‘Lives’: an intercultural and diachronic approach
9:30-10:00 Magdalena Myszkowska-Kaszuba (Wrocklaw/Liverpool): The Spartan mother like the Roman mother. Remark on a cross cultural notion of mother in Plutarch
10:00-10:30 Josep Antoni Clúa Serena (Lleida): On religious vocabulary in Plutarch (‘Lives’ and ‘Moralia’): animals as metaphors and religious symbols in a real or mythological landscape
10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:30
Session 13: Language and narrative technique (D)
Session 14: Attitudes to the Greek language (G)
Session 13
11:00-11:30 Tim Duff (Reading): Plutarch and tense: the present and imperfect
11:30-12:00 Chris Chrysanthou (Oxford): Introducing myself, introducing my narrative….’ Aspects of Plutarch’s narratorial self-projection in the prologues to the ‘Parallel Lives’
12:00-12:30 Elisabetta Berardi (Torino): Koiné versus Atticism: profiles of evolution in Plutarch's language (from ‘De gloria Atheniensium’ to ‘De audiendo’)
Session 14
11:00-11:30 Larry Kim (San Antonio/Heidelberg): Plutarch on 'archaic' oracles: obscurity, ambiguity, tyrants, and colonization
11:30-12:00 Katarzyna Jazdzewska (Warsaw): Plutarch and the Greek language in the ‘Aetia Graeca’
12:00-12:30 José Vela Tejada (Zaragoza): Plutarch and the μίμησις τῶν ἀρχαίων: atticism and koinē
12:30-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-20:00 EXCURSION
Sunday, 18 May 2014
9:30-11:00
Session 15: Space and time configurations in the Lives (D)
Session 16: Aspects of linguistic use in the Lives (G)
Session 15
9:30-10:00 Craig Cooper (Lethbridge): Geography and place in the ‘Lives of Theseus and Romulus’
10:00-10:30 Kale Coghlan (Laval): Ptolemy I Soter and Cleopatra XII in the ‘Lives of Demetrius and Antony’: from Greek to Egyptian.
10:30-11:00 Lucy Fletcher (Reading): Time, space and language in Plutarch’s ‘Life of Nikias’
Session 16
9:30-10:00 Ioannis Tsakiridis (Liverpool): The language of time in Plutarch’s ‘Aratos’
10:00-10:30 Myrto Aloumpi (Oxford): Re(de)fining philotimia: from Plutarch to Demosthenes
10:30-11:00 Joaquim Pinheiro (Madeira-Coimbra): The concept of θηριώδης in Plutarch’s ‘Lives’
11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30-13:00
Session 17: Locality and cosmopolitanism (D)
Session 18: Reflections on the barbarian (G)
Session 17
11:30-12:00 Bram Demulder (Leuven): Is dualism a Greek word? Plutarch’s dualism as a cultural phenomenon
12:00-12:30 Maria Vamvouri-Ruffy (Lausanne): The sky and the island as spatial paradigms of cosmopolitism in Plutarch’s ‘De exilio’
12:30-13:00 Katerina Oikonomopoulou (Patras): Space and the re-construction of the Greek past in Plutarch’s ‘Greek Questions’
Session 18
9:00-9:30 Paola Volpe Cacciatore (Salerno): I significati del termine xenos in Plutarco: lo ‘straniero’ nella realtà dell'Impero cosmopolita (The values of the term xenos in Plutarch’ work: the foreigner in the imperial cosmopolitan context)
9:30-10:00 Delfim F. Leão (Coimbra): Plutarch on Alexander’s behaviour towards the defeated barbarians
10:00-10:30 Dámaris Romero González (Córdoba): Barbarians and Greeks: cultural interactions
13:00-14:30 LUNCH
14:30-16:00
Session 19: Conversations with past authors I: Herodotus (D)
Session 20: Conversations with past authors II: historiographical sources (G)
Session 19
14:30-15:00 Geert Roskam (Leuven): Patriotism, history, and Plutarch’s moral agenda in ‘On the malice of Herodotus’
15:00-15:30 José María Candau (Sevilla): Plutarch and ‘’intentional history’’. The use of the past in ‘De Herodoti malignitate’
15:30-16:00 Carmen Sánchez-Mañas (Zaragoza): Herodotus and Plutarch: a diachronic perspective on oracles
Session 20
14:30-15:00 Gosciwit Malinowski (Wrocklaw): ‘’Schwindelautoren” in Pseudo-Plutarch’s ‘Parallela Minora’ and ‘De fluviis’. Invention of fictitious authors as a model of interaction with the classical past
15:00-15:30 Francisco J. González Ponce (Sevilla): Sylla's myth and Plutarch's possible debt to periplographic literature
15:30-16:00 Jack Wolfgang Geronimo Schropp (Innsbruck): nonnulli graecorum […] tradiderunt (Suet. Iul. 52,2): did Suetonius know Plutarch’s Life of Caesar?
16:00-16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30-17:00
Session 21: Embedding traditions (D)
Session 22: The legislator in space and time (G)
Session 21
17:00-17:30 Johann Goeken (Strasbourg): Plutarch and the rhetorical tradition of the ‘Symposium’
17:30-18:00 José Antonio Fernández Delgado & Francisca Pordomingo (Salamanca): Convivial quaestiones or theseis?
18:00-18:30 Antonietta Gostoli (Perugia): Glaucus of Rhegium: an ancient source from Magna Graecia in Ps.Plutarch’s ‘De musica’
Session 22
17:00-17:30 Paolo Desideri (Florence): Solon on the road
17:30-18:00 Alia Rodrigues (Coimbra/Oxford): The figure of the nomothetēs in Plutarch: a timeless statement of authority
18:00-18:30 Isha Gamlath (Kelaniya): The legislator and the transmission of Plutarch’s vision of allegory to Greek cultural history: testimony of the ‘Moralia’ and the ‘Lives’
18:30-19:30
Closing lecture: Suzanne Said (Columbia): The setting of Plutarch's dialogues
Closing discussion