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Fame and infamy : essays on characterization in Greek and Roman biography and historiography / edited by Rhiannon Ash, Judith Mossman, and Frances B. Titchener.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pelling, C. B. R.
- Biography--To 500.
- Biography.
- Historiography--Rome.
- Historiography.
- Historiography--Greece--History--To 1500.
- Greece.
- Rome (Empire).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustration (black and white)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of 24 new essays by Classical scholars on Greek and Roman historiography and biography considers from a fresh perspective the central question of how characterisation evolves in these two major Classical genres. The volume is wide-reaching, both in the time-periods and authors considered, ranging from Herodotus to Cassius Dio, and from Cicero to Suetonius and beyond. The contributors offer close readings of individual texts and overarching engagement with questions of how and why characterisation in the ancient world develops as it does.
- Contents:
- Basanos kai paidia : image, characterization, and individuation in sympotic literature / David Gribble
- Characterization in Herodotus / Emily Baragwanath
- Putting up pyramids, characterizing kings / Katherine Clarke
- Herodotus on being 'good' : characterization and explanation / Mathieu de Bakker
- 'The medium is the message' : Herodotus and his logoi / Carolyn Dewald
- Plutarch, Herodotus, and the historian's character / John Marincola
- Self-characterization and political thought in Xenophon's anabasis / Tim Rood
- Implied characterization and the meaning of history in Xenophon's hellenica / Michael A. Flower
- Aspect and subordination in Plutarchan narrative / Timothy E. Duff
- Dressed for success? Clothing in Plutarch's demetrius / Judith Mossman
- 'The love of noble deeds' : Plutarch's portrait of Aratus of Sicyon / Philip Stadter
- Plutarch's numa and the rhetoric of aetiology / Matthew Fox
- Plutarch and Dio on Cicero at the trial of Milo / Kynn Fotheringham
- The rapture and the sorrow : characterization in Sulla's memoirs / Harriet I. Flower
- Characterizing Augustus / Mark Toher
- Teachers and students in Roman Athens / Ewen Bowie
- Tacitus and Germanicus : monuments and models / A.J. Woodman
- At the end of the rainbow : Nero and Dido's gold (Tacitus annals 16.1-3) / Rhiannon Ash
- Colour in Suetonius' lives of the Caesars / Alexei V. Zadorojnyi
- Bigger from a distance : Appian on Antiochus 'the great' / Luke Pitcher
- Three readings of character in the periochae of Livy / D.S. Levene
- From Jerusalem to the ends of the earth : the meaning of Paul's two names at Acts 13.9 / Jonathan Williams
- Pagan and Christian sex lives in the Roman Empire / Simon Swain
- Not the whole story? : moralizing biography and Imitatio Christi / Teresa Morgan.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780191639395
- 0191639397
- 9780191799174
- 0191799173
- OCLC:
- 921276985
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