2024

SCS-34: Religious Beliefs and Practices in the Works of Plutarch and his Contemporaries

In-Person SCS Session Affiliated Group Panel

Salon C-5, Lower Level

Sponsored by:
The International Plutarch Society
Organizers
Inger N.I. Kuin, University of Virginia; Zoe Stamatopoulou, Washington University in St. Louis
Introducers
Inger N.I. Kuin, University of Virginia

02 - The Terminology of Mystery Cults in Plutarch’s Works: Platonism Religion, and Philosophical Legitimation

Francesco Padovani, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen

03 - The Prayer of the Ass: Silent Prayer and a Possible Meaning of the Book 11 of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

Umberto Verdura, Columbia University

04 - Neither a woman, nor a dog, nor a fly: Plutarch and taboos against entrance into Roman and Greek sanctuaries

Carmine Nastri, University of Salerno, Serena Emilia Di Salvatore, University of Salerno

05 - Croesus and the Debate over Delphic Ambiguity

Rebecca Frank, Colby College

06 - Dio Chrysostom’s Philosophical Prophetess in the First Kingship Oration

Stephen Hill, Wyoming Catholic College/University of Virginia