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Political autobiographies and memoirs in antiquity : a Brill companion / edited by Gabriele Marasco.
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- Book
- Series:
- Brill's companions in classical studies
- Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online II
- Brill's Companions in Classical Studies II
- Companions in Classical Studies II
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Classical biography--History and criticism.
- Classical biography.
- Biography as a literary form.
- History.
- Local Subjects:
- History.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 461 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Through the examination of political autobiographies and memoirs, some preserved in their entirety, others known only from fragments, this book offers a fascinating picture of the way characters who stand out in history saw and represented themselves and their own political actions.
- Contents:
- Abbreviations
- Classical Greece/ V.J. Gray
- Royal autobiography in the Hellenistic age/ Cinzia Bearzot
- The Hellenistic age: autobiography and political struggles/ Gabriele Marasco
- Republican Rome: autobiography and political struggles/ J.M. Candau
- The late republic: autobiographies and memoirs in the age of the civil wars/ Jeffrey Tatum
- Caesar and the Corpus Caesarianum/ Marc Mayer
- The Augustan Age/ Joseph Geiger
- Augustus: the emperor writes his own account/ Ronald Thomas Ridley
- The early empire/ Pere Villalba Varneda
- The second and third century/ Richard Westall and Frederick Brenk
- The late empire/ Hartmut Leppin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Marasco, Gabriele. Political Autobiographies and Memoirs in Antiquity : A Brill Companion.
- ISBN:
- 9789004214651
- 9004214658
- 1283280833
- 9781283280839
- OCLC:
- 754582350
- Publisher Number:
- 9786613280831
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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