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PLUTARCH AMONG THE BARBARIANS

Inaugural Meeting of the North American Sections of the International Plutarch Society at the Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada

March 13-16, 2014

 


PLUTARCH'S CITIES:
An International Symposium in honour of
Anastasios Nikolaidis
(Delphi, 25-29 April 2013)

The Department of Philology of the University of Crete, in collaboration with the Secretary of the International Plutarch Society, Prof. Frances Titchener, and the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, is happy to announce an international symposium on 'Plutarch's cities' that will take place in Delphi (April 25-29, 2013). This is a symposium to honour Prof. Anastasios Nikolaidis' lifelong dedication to Plutarchan studies.


The speakers and topics will be:

1. Jeff  Beneker: 'Plutarch's Athens, real and ideal' 
2. Ewen Bowie: 'Plutarch's Chaeronea'
3. Paolo Desideri: 'Plutarch and the city of Rome in Plutarch's own times'
4. Tim Duff : 'Plutarch's Alcibiades and Athens' 
5. Joseph Geiger: 'City and sanctuary in Plutarch'
6. Aristoula Georgiadou: 'On Thespiae'
7. Athena Kavoulaki: 'The  polis  on display in Plutarch's Lives'
8. Delfim Leao: 'Plutarch's  Life of Phocion  and the end of the polis: the last  polites  and the mob of new  idiotai '
9. Katerina Panagopoulou:'Plutarch's northern cities'
10. Judith Mossman: 'Plutarch's Troy'
11. Jan Opsomer: 'Are you a political animal?'
12. Michael Paschalis: 'Antony's cities'
13. Chris Pelling: 'Stereotyping Sparta, stereotyping Athens: Herodotus, Thucydides - and Plutarch'
14. Aurelio Pérez Jiménez: 'La ciudad y la nave. Recepcion y usos de una imagen en la obra de Plutarco'
15. Geert Roskam: 'The place of the  polis  in Plutarch's political thinking'
16. Suzanne Said: 'Athens as a place in the Athenian Lives of Plutarch'
17. Thomas Schmidt: 'Explaining the city: the  polis  in Plutarch's  Quaestiones Graecae '
18. Philip Stadter: 'Plutarch and Delphi'
19. Frances Titchener: 'The city of  philanthropia '
20. Yannis Tzifopoulos: ' aposphendonetoi  in Plutarch ( Greek Questions  293a-b) and the colonisation of Methone'
21. Luc Van der Stockt: 'Plutarch's  Civitas Dei '
22. Paola Volpe: 'Momenti di vita spartana nella biografia plutarchea di Licurgo'
23. Tim Whitmarsh: 'Plutarch the priest (unplugged)'
24. Alexei Zadorozhnyy: 'The city and the self in Plutarch'


For further information please contact the organisers:

Lucia Athanassaki (athanassaki@phl.uoc.gr )
Frances Titchener (frances.titchener@usu.edu )

 





 

 

 

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