Plutarch's Cities

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 program of the symposium and a registration form will be posted on the website of the University of Crete, Classics Department (www.philology.uoc.gr). The speakers and topics will be as follows:

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 ([email protected])

Frances Titchener ([email protected])