This conference addressed the uses of Plutarch's historical and philosophical works by late antique, medieval and early modern scholars, writers and artists.
Speakers: Ewen Bowie (Oxford), Roberto Guerrini (Siena), Constanze Güthenke (Princeton), Edith Hall (King's College London), Judith Mossmann (Nottingham), Frances Muecke (Sydney), John North (Institute of Classical Studies), Marianne Pade (Danish Institute Rome), Chris Pelling (Oxford), Alberto Rigolio (Oxford), Fred Schurink (Northumbria), Frances Titchener (Utah State), Rosie Wyles (King's College London), Sophia Xenophontos (Cyprus) and Alexei Zadorojnyi (Liverpool)
Thursday 23 May 2013
Plutarch's revival in late Byzantium: the case of Theodore Metochites
From Francesco Barbaro to Angelo Poliziano: Plutarch's Roman Questions in the fifteenth century
John Whethamstede and Plutarch
Additional Lives: Hannibal, Scipio and Epaminondas
Plutarch, the Institutio Traiani, and the Social Dynamics of Philosophy in Renaissance England
Friday 24 May 2013
Plutarco, Poussin e l’arte barocca
After Exemplarity: a Map of Plutarchan Scholarship
Plutarch à la Russe: Ancient Heroism and Russian Ideology in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
