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INTERNATIONAL PLUTARCH SOCIETY:

7th International Congress at Rethymno
(University Campus, 4-8 May 2005)

The Unity of Plutarch's Work:
Moralia Themes in the 'Lives', Features of the 'Lives' in the Moralia
Programme
WEDNESDAY 4 MAY

09.00-10.00 :Registration (Name tags, Conference packs)

10.00-11.30 :Welcome and opening formalities. Aurelio Pérez Jiménez, President of the International Plutarch Society, will officially present two honorary volumes of essays dedicated to Italo Gallo and Philip Stadter, the first two Presidents of the IPS.

11.30-12.00 :Coffee break

WEDNESDAY 4 MAY, 12.00-13.30 : Session 1 (Chair: Italo Gallo)

Philip Stadter
Notes and Anecdotes: Observations on Cross-genre Apophthegmata.

Aurelio Pérez Jiménez
El Trípode de Maratón. Modelos plutarqueos para los héroes de Plutarco

Luc Van der Stockt
Self-esteem, Image-building and Anger in De cohibenda ira and the Lives

14.00-15.30 : Lunch-coffee
WEDNESDAY 4 MAY, 15.30-17.30 : Session 2 (Chair: Philip Stadter)

Chris Pelling
Parallel Narratives: Telling Stories in Moralia and in Lives

Frederick Brenk
Setting a Good Exemplum. Case Studies in the Moralia, the Lives as Case Studies

Anastasios Nikolaidis
Plutarch's Heroes in the Moralia:a Matter of Variatio or Another (More Genuine) Outlook?

Jolanda Capriglione
Vizi e virtù tra i Moralia e le Vite

THURSDAY 5 MAY, 09.00-11.00 : Session 3A (Chair: Chris Pelling)

Sven-Tage Teodorsson
The Education of Rulers in Theory (Moralia) and Practice (Vitae)

Geert Roskam
Two Roads to Politics: Plutarch on the Statesman's Entry in Political Life.

Lukas de Blois
The Ideal Statesman. A Commonplace in Plutarch's Political Treatises,
His Solon and His Lycurgus.

Elias Koulakiotis
The Greek Lawgiver in Plutarch

11.00-11.30 : Coffee break
THURSDAY 5 MAY, 09.00-11.00 : Session 3B (Chair: Ewen Bowie)

John Dillon
Dion and Brutus: Philosopher Kings Adrift in a Hostile World.

Manuel Troster
Struggling with the Plêthos:
Politics and Military Leadership in Plutarch's Life of Lucullus

Federicomaria Muccioli
Fania di Lesbo, un filosofo e assai esperto di ricerca storica (Plut., Them. 13.5).
Plutarco e i rapporti tra biografia, storia e filosofia etica.

Simon Verdegem
Plutarch's Quaestiones Romanae and His Lives of Early Romans

11.00-11.30 : Coffee break
THURSDAY 5 MAY, 11.30-13.30 : Session 4A (Chair: Lukas de Blois)

Craig Cooper
The Moral Interplay between Plutarch's Precepts of Statecraft
and Life of Demosthenes.

Evangelos Alexiou
Eunoia bei Plutarch: von den Praecepta Gerendae Reipublicae zu den Viten

Rhiannon Ash
Standing in the Shadows: Plutarch and the Emperors in the Lives and Moralia

Nikos Charalabopoulos
Exploring the Limits of Greek Resistance:
Plutarch's Construction of Anti-Roman Voices in the Lives and the Moralia.

14.00-15.30 : Lunch-coffee
THURSDAY 5 MAY, 11.30-13.30 : Session 4B (Chair: A. Pérez Jiménez)

Jackson Hershbell
Plutarch on Solon and Sophia.

José Vela Tegada
El Banquete de los Siete Sabios y la Vida de Solón de Plutarco:
mito político y contexto literario

Inés Calero Secal
Las Vidas frente a los Moralia en las alusiones plutarqueas sobre Solón

Delfim F. Leão
Plutarch and the Character of the Sapiens

14.00-15.30 : Lunch-coffee
THURSDAY 5 MAY, 15.30-17.30 : Session 5A (Chair: L. Van der Stockt)

Frances Titchener
Cowardice vs Superstition in Peri Deisidaimonias and the Life of Nicias.

Mark Beck
Plutarch's Ideological Stance on the Control of Anger in the Lives and the Moralia.

Lieve Van Hoof
Genres and Their Implications: polypragmosyne in On Curiosity versus the Lives

Heinz Gerd Ingenkamp
Moralia in the Lives: The Charge of Rashness in Pelopidas/Marcellus

THURSDAY 5 MAY, 15.30-17.30 : Session 5B (Chair: Carlos Schrader)

Rosa María Aguilar Fernández
Pharmakon en Plutarco

Vicente Ramón Palerm
Recursos humorísticos en la obra de Plutarco

Diotima Papadi
Tragedy in the Life of Pompey

Roosevelt Araujo da Rocha Junior
Plutarch and the Music

FRIDAY 6 MAY, 09.00-11.00 : Session 6A (Chair: John Dillon)

Joseph Geiger
Lives and Moralia: How Were Put Asunder What Plutarch Hath Joined Together

Ewen Bowie
Plutarch's Habits of Citation: Aspects of Difference Between Moralia and Lives

Francisca Pordomingo
La reutilización de citas de epigramas:
una manifestación del diálogo intratextual en el corpus plutarqueo

Christophe Brechet
Grecs, Macédoniens et Romains au test d'Homère:
référence homérique et hellénisme chez Plutarque

11.00-11.30 : Coffee break
FRIDAY 6 MAY, 09.00-11.00 : Session 6B (Chair: S. - T. Teodorsson)

Gabriele Marasco
Donne, cultura e societa nelle Vite parallele di Plutarco

Dámaris Romero
Buscando el prototipo de mujer espartana

Carmen Soares
Parent-Child Affective and Social Relationships in Plutarch:
Common Elements in Consolatio ad uxorem and Vitae

Zlatko Plese
Deformity (anapêria): Plutarch's Views of Reproduction
and Imperfect Generation in the Moralia and Lives

11.00-11.30 : Coffee break
FRIDAY 6 MAY, 11.30-13.30 : Session 7A (Chair: Rosa Aguilar)

Carlos Schrader
Plutarco (Cim. 13.4) y las islas Quelidonias

Mónica Durán Mañas
Los Ptolomeos en Plutarco

Rafael Gallé Cejudo
Plutarco y la elegía helenística

Israel Muñoz Gallarte
Los judíos en las Vidas y Moralia de Plutarco

14.00-15.30 : Lunch-coffee
FRIDAY 6 MAY, 11.30-13.30 : Session 7B (Chair: A. Georgiadou)

Bernard Boulet
Why the Many Faces of Plutarch's Apollo?

Jane Francis - George Harrison
Plutarch on Crete: Nostalgia in the Lives and Moralia

Patricia FitzGibbon
Literary Portraits of Epicureans in Plutarch's Lives and Moralia

Paola Volpe Cacciatore
Due testi a confronto: De Iside 352f - 353e. Quaest. conv. VIII, 8 728c - 730f

14.00-15.30 : Lunch-coffee
FRIDAY 6 MAY, 15.30-17.00 : Session 8A (Chair: Bernard Boulet)

Jacques Boulogne
Les digressions scientifiques dans les Vies de Plutarque

Alain Billault
Plutarque et la scène de symposion

Ana Vicente
El uso de algunas cuestiones naturales en la obra de Plutarco

FRIDAY 6 MAY, 15.30-17.00 : Session 8B (Chair: F. Titchener)

Timothy Duff
How Lives begin: Themistocles and Alcibiades

Alexei Zadorozhnyy
'There and Back Again': Plutarch, Demosthenes 1-2

Benoit Castelnérac
Spoken and Written Speech in Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus

SATURDAY 7 MAY, 09.00-11.00 : Session 9 (Chair: Frederick Brenk)

Aristoula Georgiadou
Eros and Military Valour: The Erotic Tradition of the Sacred Band in Plutarch

Jeffrey Beneker
Plutarch on the Role of Eros in a Marriage

Georgia Tsouvala
Integrating Marriage and Homonoia

Nicolas Matte
Plutarch's Alcibiades: The Problem of Eros for the Soul and the City

11.00-11.30 : Coffee break
SATURDAY 7 MAY, 11.30-13.30 : Session 10 (Chair: A. Nikolaidis)

Judith Mossman
Language Speech and Communication in Plutarch

José-Antonio Fernández Delgado
On the Problematic Classification of Some Rhetorical Elements
Common to Plutarch's Work

Marietta Horster
Plutarch and the Grammarians

(A Brief Round-up by the Chair)

SATURDAY 7 MAY

14.00-15.00 :Lunch

15.15 :Departure for Arkadi monastery and the archaeological site
of ancient Eleutherna. Farewell dinner at Bali.

23.00 (approx.) :Return to the hotel
SUNDAY 8 MAY

09.00 :Departure for an all-day excursion (optional) to Phaistos, Gortys, Matala.

20.00 (approx.) :Return to the hotel.