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[Oxford Handbooks]
Oxford handbooks. ^A611862
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Writing (about) ancient Lives: scholarship, definitions and concepts / Koen De Temmerman -- What are Bioi/Vitae? Generic self-consciousness in ancient biography / Sean A. Adams -- Individual and collected lives in Antiquity / Jeffrey Beneker -- Popular biography / Ioannis M. Konstantakos -- Jewish biography / Joseph Geiger -- Christian biography / Scott Fitzgerald Johnson -- Fifth-century preliminaries / Christopher Pelling -- Isocrates' Evagoras: The educational ends of the 'first' biography in Classical Greece / Takis Poulakos -- Xenophon of Athens / Noreen Humble -- Ex uno fonte multi rivuli? Unity and multiplicity in Hellenistic biography / Tiziano Dorandi -- Nepos' Life of Atticus and Nicolaus' Life of Caesar and the genre of political biography in the age of Augustus / Rex Stem -- Biography and Praise in Trajanic Rome: Tacitus' Agricola and Pliny's Panegyricus / Christopher Whitton -- Plutarch's Parallel Lives / Aristoula Georgiadou and Michele A. Lucchesi -- Plutarch: Lives of the Caesars (Galba, Otho) and Lives of Aratus and Artaxerxes / Luc Van der Stockt -- Types of life-writing in Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars and Illustrious Men / Dennis Pausch -- The Alexander Romance / Corinne Jouanno -- The Biographer as Literary Artist: Form and Content in Philostratus' Apollonius / Adam M. Kemezis -- Diogenes Laertius and philosophical lives / Stephen White -- A Bishop's Biography: Eusebius of Caesarea and the Life of Constantine / James Corke-Webster -- Augustine's Confessions as Autobiography / Michael Stuart Williams -- Solitude and Biography in Jerome's Life of Hilarion / Jason Kon̈ig -- Lives of Homer / Suzanne Saï̈d -- Ancient biographies of statesmen / Jacqueline Klooster -- Sophists / Kendra Eshleman -- Philosophers and their Neoplatonic Lives: Problems and Paradigms / Graeme Miles -- Holy men: Wonderworkers, apostles and saints / Danny Praet -- Martyrs and Life-Writing in Late Antiquity / Koen De Temmerman and Danny Praet -- Monastic Lives / Mark Edwards -- Syriac Biography / Muriel Debie -- ́ Coptic Life Stories / Arietta Papaconstantinou -- Armenian Biography in Late Antiquity / S. Peter Cowe -- Arabic Biography / Faustina Doufikar-Aerts -- Biographical monuments: Displaying selves and lives in Ancient Egypt / Elizabeth Frood -- Engraved lives: Biographical material in epigraphical sources / Christof Schuler, Florian R. Forster -- Depicted lives: The role of the visual arts in sophistic self-representation / Zahra Newby -- Triumphant lives: portraits, statues and triumphal arches in imperial Rome / Eric R. Varner -- Lucian: Satirical and Idealising Lives (Peregrinus, Alexander, Demonax) / Graham Anderson -- Ancient Biographies of Statesmen / Jacqueline Klooster -- Byzantine Biography / Martin Hinterberger -- Roman Biography in the Medieval West: Did Classical Texts Facilitate Complex Literary Portraits in the Middle Ages? / Lars Boje Mortensen -- Ancient Biography and the Italian Renaissance: Old Models and New Developments / Thomas Hendrickson -- Ancient Biography in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Enrica Zanin -- After-Lives: Biographical Receptions of the Greek and Roman Poets in the Twentieth Century / Nora Goldschmidt -- Fifth-century preliminaries / Christopher Pelling. |
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Writing (about) ancient Lives: scholarship, definitions and concepts / Koen De Temmerman -- Ex uno fonte multi rivuli? Unity and multiplicity in Hellenistic biography / Tiziano Dorandi -- Life of Homer / Suzanne Said̈ -- Nepos' Life of Atticus and Nicolaus' Life of Caesar and the genre of political biography in the age of Augustus / Rex Stem -- Biography and Praise in Trajanic Rome: Tacitus' Agricola and Pliny's Panegyricus / Christopher Whitton -- Plutarch's Parallel Lives / Aristoula Georgiadou, Michele A. Lucchesi -- Plutarch: Lives of the Caesars (Galba, Otho) and Lives of Aratus and Artaxerxes / Luc Van der Stockt -- Types of life-writing in Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars and Illustrious Men / Dennis Pausch -- The Alexander Romance / Corinne Jouanno -- The Biographer as Literary Artist: Form and Content in Philostratus' Apollonius / Adam M. Kemezis -- Lucian: Satirical and Idealising Lives (Peregrinus, Alexander, Demonax) / Graham Anderson -- What are Bioi/Vitae? Generic self-consciousness in ancient biography / Sean A. Adams -- Diogenes Laertius and philosophical lives / Stephen White -- Augustine's Confessions as Autobiography / Michael Stuart Williams -- Solitude and Biography in Jerome's Life of Hilarion / Jason Kon̈ig -- A Bishop's Biography: Eusebius of Caesarea and the Life of Constantine / James Corke-Webster -- Ancient Biographies of Statesmen / Jacqueline Klooster -- Sophists / Kendra Eshleman -- Philosophers and their Neoplatonic Lives: Problems and Paradigms / Graeme Miles -- Individual and collected lives in Antiquity / Jeffrey Beneker -- Holy men: Wonderworkers, apostles and saints / Danny Praet, Marc Van Uytfanghe -- Martyrs and Life-Writing in Late Antiquity / Koen De Temmerman, Danny Praet -- Monastic Lives / Mark Edwards -- Syriac Biography / Muriel Debie ́ -- Arabic Biography / Faustina Doufikar-Aerts -- Coptic Life Stories / Arietta Papaconstantinou -- Armenian Biography in Late Antiquity / S. Peter Cowe -- Biographical monuments: Displaying selves and lives in Ancient Egypt / Elizabeth Frood -- Engraved lives: Biographical material in epigraphical sources / Christof Schuler, Florian R. Forster -- Popular biography / Ioannis M. Konstantakos -- Depicted lives: The role of the visual arts in sophistic self-representation / Zahra Newby -- Triumphant lives: portraits, statues and triumphal arches in imperial Rome / Eric R. Varner -- Byzantine Biography / Martin Hinterberger -- Roman Biography in the Medieval West: Did Classical Texts Facilitate Complex Literary Portraits in the Middle Ages? / Lars Boje Mortensen -- Ancient Biography and the Italian Renaissance: Old Models and New Developments / Thomas Hendrickson -- Ancient Biography in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Enrica Zanin -- After-Lives: Biographical Receptions of the Greek and Roman Poets in the Twentieth Century / Nora Goldschmidt. |
| Summary |
Biography is one of the most widespread literary genres worldwide. Biographies and autobiographies of actors, politicians, Nobel Prize winners, and other famous figures have never been more prominent in book shops and publishers' catalogues. This Handbook offers a wide-ranging, multi-authored survey on biography in Antiquity from its earliest representatives to Late Antiquity. It aims to be a broad introduction and a reference tool on the one hand, and to move significantly beyond the state-of-the-art on the other. To this end, it addresses conceptual questions about this sprawling genre, offers both in-depth readings of key texts and diachronic studies, and deals with the reception of ancient biography across multiple eras up to the present day. In addition, it takes a wide approach to the concept of ancient biography by examining biographical depictions in different textual and visual media (epigraphy, sculpture, architecture) and by providing outlines of biographical developments in ancient and late antique cultures other than Graeco-Roman. 0Highly accessible, this book aims at a broad audience ranging from specialists to newcomers in the field. Chapters provide English translations of ancient (and modern) terminology and citations. In addition, all individual chapters are concluded by a section containing suggestions for further reading on their specific topic. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-674) and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020943626 |
| ISBN | 0198703015 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780198703013 (hardcover) |
