Plutarch's cities / edited by Lucia Athanassaki and Frances B. Titchener.
| Other author | Athanassaki, Lucia, 1957- |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022. |
| Description | xvii, 378 pages : illustration, map ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
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| Contents | Introduction, Lucia Athanassaki and Frances Titchener ; Part I. Contemporary Cities: Travel, Sojourn, Autopsy, and Inspiration 1:Plutarch's Chaeronea, Ewen Bowie ; 2:Plutarch and Delphi, Philip Stadter ; 3:Plutarch and the City of Rome in Plutarch's Own Times, Paolo Desideri ; 4:City and Sanctuary in Plutarch, Joseph Geiger ; 5:Athenian Monumental Architecture, Iconography and Topography in Plutarch's De Gloria Atheniensium, Lucia Athanassaki ; Part II. Cities of the Past: History, Politics, and Society. 6:Stereotyping Sparta, Stereotyping Athens: Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plutarch, Christopher Pelling ; 7:Ritual Politics and Space Control in Plutarch's Alcibiades and Other Athenian Lives, Athena Kavoulaki ; 8:Alcibiades and the City, Timothy E. Duff ; 9:Athenian Civic Identities in Plutarch's Portrayals of Phocion and Demetrius of Phalerum: From the polites to the kosmopolites, Delfim Leão ; 10:Plutarch and Thebes, John Marincola ; 12:Plutarch's Northern Greek Cities, Katerina Panagopoulou ; 12:Plutarch's Troy: Three Approaches, Judith Mossman. Part III. Cities to Think With. 13:The City and the Self in Plutarch, Alexei V. Zadorojnyi ; 14:The City and the Ship: Reception and the Use of a Metaphor in Plutarch's Parellel Lives, Aurelio Pérez Jiménez ; 15:The Place of the polis in Plutarch's Political Thinking, Geert Roskam ; 16:Plutarch's Civitas Dei, Luc Van der Stockt ; 17:Plutarch on Superstition, Atheism, and the City, Tim Whitmarsh ; Part IV. Afterword. 18:Plutarch's Cities: Where To?, Lucia Athanassaki. |
| Abstract | "This volume is the first comprehensive attempt to assess the significance of the polis in Plutarch's works from several perspectives, namely the polis as a physical entity, a lived experience and a source of inspiration, the polis as a historical and sociopolitical unit, the polis as a theoretical construct and paradigm to think with. The book's multifocal and multi-perspectival examination of Plutarch's cities - past and present, real and ideal-yields some remarkable corrections of his conventional image. Plutarch was neither an antiquarian nor a philosopher of the desk. He was not oblivious to his surroundings but had a keen interest in painting, sculpture, monuments and inscriptions, about which he acquired impressive knowledge in order to help him understand and reconstruct the past. Cult and ritual proved equally fertile for Plutarch's visual imagination. Whereas historiography was the backbone of his reconstruction of the past and evaluation of the present, material culture, cult, and ritual were also sources of inspiration to enliven past and present alike. Plato's descriptions of Athenian houses and the Attic landscape were also a source of inspiration, but Plutarch clearly did his own research, based on autopsy and on oral and written sources. Plutarch, Plato's disciple and Apollo's priest, was on balance a pragmatist. He did not resist the temptation to contemplate the ideal city, but he wrote much more about real cities, as he experienced or imagined them"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-355) and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021946290 |
| ISBN | 0192859919 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780192859914 (hardcover) |