«Symposion» and «Philanthropia» in Plutarch - Bad Request ...

Dá m a r i s Ro m e r o Go n z á l e z is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institutefor Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing at Birmingham University,England. Her research fields are Plutarch, women in antiquity and thesemantics of the New Testament.De l f i m Le ã o is professor of Classics at the University of Coimbra. He has adeep interest in law, politics and the constitutional history of ancient Greece,as well as in theatrical practice and the Roman novel. He is one of the editors(together with E. M. Harris and P. J. Rhodes) of Law and Drama in AncientGreece (Duckworth, forthcoming).Er a n Al m a g o r is a post-doctoral scholar based at the Hebrew Universityof Jerusalem, Israel. His PhD dissertation (2007) was a historical and literarycommentray on Plutarch’s Life of Artaxerxes. He is interested in Achaemenidhistory, ancient ethnography, narratology in Plutarch and perceptions of the“other” in ancient Classical and Jewish literature.Fr a n c e s B. Ti t c h e n e r is Professor of History and Classics at Utah StateUniversity, USA. She has published research on the development of biographyand autobiography, as well as the works of Plutarch. She serves as InternationalCoordinator of the International Plutarch Society and co-editor of its journal,Ploutarchos.Fr a n c e s c a Me s t r e has been Tenured Lecturer of Greek Philology at theUniversity of Barcelona since 1988. Her main fields of study are GreekLiterature in the Roman Empire, the Second Sophistic, authors such asLucian, Plutarch and Philostratus, historiography, and Hellenism. Since 2001she has led the research group “Graecia Capta” on Greek culture under theRoman Empire.Fr a n c e s c o Be c c h i is professor of Greek Language and Literature at FlorenceUniversity (“G. Pasquali” Dept. of Ancient Classics), Italy. He studied ethicalliterature in its historical development from the classical to imperial age(Theophrastus, Stoics, Posidonius, Middle Platonism, Alcinous, Peripatetics,Aspasius, Neopythagoreans, Plutarch of Chaeronea, Alexander of Aphrodisias,Galenus). Among his works on Plutarch, he has published a critical editionwith introduction, translation and commentary of the De virtute morali and ofthe De fortuna.Fr a n c o Fe r r a r i is full professor of the history of ancient philosophy at theUniversity of Salerno. He has a PhD in Philosophy (University of Torino:1993) and in History (University of San Marino: 1997). He was Alexandervon-HumboldtFellow at the University of Münster in Germany (1997-1999),where he worked on the project “Der Platonismus in der Antike” directed byMatthias Baltes. Since 1999 he has been teaching at the University of Salerno.568