The Oxford handbook of ancient biography / edited by Koen De Temmerman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Temmerman, Koen de, editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical biography.

Classical biography--History and criticism.

Biography as a literary form--History.

Biography as a literary form.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (800 pages).

Other Title:

Handbook of ancient biography

Ancient biography

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This handbook presents a wide-ranging survey on biography in Antiquity from its earliest representations to Late Antiquity. It offers in-depth readings of key texts and diachronic studies, examines biographical depictions in different textual and visual media, and deals with the reception of ancient biography across multiple eras.

Contents:

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 Saïd

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 König

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 Debié

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

Isocrates' Evagoras: The educational ends of the 'first' biography in Classical Greece / Takis Poulakos

Jewish biography / Joseph Geiger

Christian biography / Scott Fitzgerald Johnson

Fifth-century preliminaries / Christopher Pelling

Xenophon of Athens / Noreen Humble.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 7, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780191885372

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.