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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; as a historical and sociopolitical unit; as a theoretical construct and paradigm to think with.
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Lucia Athanassaki is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Crete and co-chairman of the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song; Visiting Professor at the University of Washington (2010), and the University of Virginia (1990-91). Fellow at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC (2019); Recipient of an Excellence Award by the Hellenic National Research Council (2012); Visiting Scholar at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (2004); Dean of the School of Letters at Crete and chairman of the editorial board of Ariadne (2014-18). She is author and co-editor of six books and more than fifty articles.
Frances B. Titchener is Distinguished Professor of History and Classics. She was recognized as the USU College of Humanities Teacher of the Year (1993), was the first USU Professor to be awarded the CASE Professorship of Utah (1995), and was recognized as Outstanding Collegiate Level teacher by the American Philological Association (now Society for Classical Studies) (1999). She was awarded a Fulbright (Research) Grant to Belgium (2003) and was a visiting Professor in Leuven Belgium (2010) and Rethymno Crete (2017). She is the Editor of Ploutarchos, the International Plutarch Society journal, and co-editor of six books, as well as the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Plutarch.
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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; as a historical and sociopolitical unit; as a theoretical construct and paradigm to think with.
