workshops.133 Plutarch was surely exaggerating, since philosophers at this time still used the other settings mentioned above—the gymnasia, stoa, and houses of the rich and powerful—though they were also teaching more in their own dwellings.134 Nevertheless, Plutarch’s statements allow us to assume that in Paul’s day the workshop was one conventional social setting for intellectual activity. An appropriate analogue to Paul, however, requires not merely the presence of philosophers in workshops but