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'Space and time' have been key concepts of investigation in the
humanities in recent years. In the field of Classics in particular,
they have led to the fresh appraisal of genres such as epic,
historiography, the novel and biography, by enabling a close focus
on how ancient texts invest their representations of space and time
with a variety of symbolic and cultural meanings. This collection
of essays by a team of international scholars seeks to make a
contribution to this rich interdisciplinary field, by exploring how
space and time are perceived, linguistically codified and portrayed
in the biographical and philosophical work of Plutarch of Chaeronea
(1st-2nd centuries CE). The volume's aim is to show how
philological approaches, in conjunction with socio-cultural
readings, can shed light on Plutarch's spatial terminology and
clarify his conceptions of time, especially in terms of the ways in
which he situates himself in his era's fascination with the past.
The volume's intended readership includes Classicists, intellectual
and cultural historians and scholars whose field of expertise
embraces theoretical study of space and time, along with the
linguistic strategies used to portray them in literary or
historical texts.
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