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Zusatztext Philosopher's Banquet is a book in which one can find convincing answers to many questions in the field of Plutarchan studies and that wider field of the culture-specific poetics of Graeco-Roman times. It will serve scholars for years. Informationen zum Autor Frieda Klotz is a Freelance journalist. Katerina Oikonomopoulou is Leverhulme Research Fellow, School of Classics, University of St Andrews. Klappentext A collection of essays on Plutarch's Table Talk, an influential Greek prose text which is a combination of philosophical dialogue (in the style of Plato's Symposium) and miscellany. The contributors offer a range of methodologically innovative and sophisticated readings of the work's literary form, themes, and cultural background. Zusammenfassung The Philosopher's Banquet is the first sustained study of Plutarch's Table Talk, a Greek prose text which is a combination of philosophical dialogue (in the style of Plato's Symposium) and miscellany. The form of Table Talk was imitated by several later Greek and Roman imperial authors (such as Aulus Gellius, Athenaeus, and Macrobius), making it a vital part of the early Roman Empire's literary and cultural history. Similarly, the great variety of its contents links it with a broader imperial cultural trend, that of systematizing knowledge, which features increasingly prominently as a subject of scholarly study in both classics and the history of science. The contributors to The Philosopher's Banquet offer a range of methodologically innovative and sophisticated readings of Table Talk's literary form, themes, cultural background, and influence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I. Traditions 1: Frances B. Titchener: Plutarch's Table Talk: Sampling a Rich Blend. A Survey of Scholarly Appraisal 2: Teresa Morgan: The Miscellany and Plutarch II. Topics and Themes 3: Eleni Kechagia: Philosophy in Plutarch's Table Talk: In Jest or in Earnest? 4: Katerina Oikonomopoulou: Peripatetic Knowledge in Plutarch's Table Talk 5: Maria Vamvouri Ruffy: Symposium, Physical and Social Health in Plutarch's Table Talk III. Voice and Authority 6: Frieda Klotz: Imagining the Past: Plutarch's Play with Time 7: Jason König: Self-Promotion and Self-Effacement in Plutarch's Table Talk IV. Contradictions 8: Christopher Pelling: Putting the -viv- into Convivial: The Table-Talkand the Lives ...
