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Representations of intellectual community in Plutarch, Pliny the Younger and Aulus Gellius

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2019
Author
König, Jason Peter
Keywords
Plutarch
Pliny the Younger
Aulus Gellius
Intellectual community
Networks
Reading
Symposium
Recitation
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Abstract
This chapter argues that the late first and second century CE was a period which saw important experiments with different possibilities for representing intellectual community. I look first at Plutarch’s Sympotic Questions: his sympotic community is tied together by a shared style of conversation, which involves entering into dialogue with the authors of the past; it is also represented as a strongly Greek community, not least in the fact that so many of the conversations Plutarch records are set at festivals. Pliny’s Letters are closely parallel to Plutarch’s project: there is not enough evidence to demonstrate mutual influence between the two works conclusively, but Pliny does conjure an image of an elite community that shares the scale and variety of Plutarch’s work, although with the difference that Pliny is much more interested in the portrayal of the book as a physical object, for example in his portrayal of recitation culture. For Gellius too Plutarch’s Sympotic Questions is an important point of comparison, in fact Plutarch is one of the main inspirations for his work, but he too, even more so than Pliny, gives great prominence to the act of reading; the elite community he presents also has far few named figures, and that different reflects his interest in solitary engagement with the writings of the past as an essential complement to learned conversation.
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König , J P 2019 , ' Representations of intellectual community in Plutarch, Pliny the Younger and Aulus Gellius ' , Archimède. Archéologie et histoire ancienne , vol. Special issue 1 , pp. 54-67 . < http://archimede.unistra.fr/revue-archimede/archimede-hors-serie-n-1-2018/archimede-hs-n1-2018-la-republique-greco-romaine-des-lettres-construction-des-reseaux-savants-et-circulation-des-savoirs-dans-lempire-romain/ >
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Archimède. Archéologie et histoire ancienne
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Peer reviewed
ISSN
2418-3547
Type
Journal article
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Copyright 2019 the Author. This is an open access article published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA licence.
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Part of special issue: La République « gréco-romaine » des lettres: construction des réseaux savants et circulation des savoirs dans l’Empire romain. Editors: Anthony Andurand and Corinne Bonnet
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http://archimede.unistra.fr/revue-archimede/archimede-hors-serie-n-1-2018/archimede-hs-n1-2018-la-republique-greco-romaine-des-lettres-construction-des-reseaux-savants-et-circulation-des-savoirs-dans-lempire-romain/
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/17213

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