Examines how the biographical traditions of ancient poets and artists parallel the creative processes of biographers themselves, both within antiquity and beyond.
Examines how the biographical traditions of ancient poets and artists parallel the creative processes of biographers themselves, both within antiquity and beyond.
List of illustrations; Part I. Opening Remarks: 1. Orientation: what we mean by 'creative lives' Johanna Hanink and Richard Fletcher; 2. 'Lives' as parameter: the privileging of ancient lives as a category of research c.1900 Constanze Güthenke; Part II. Dead Poets Societies: 3. Close encounters with the ancient poets Barbara Graziosi; 4. Recognizing Virgil Andrew Laird; Part III. Lives in Unexpected Places: 5. A poetic possession: Pindar's Lives of the poets Anna Uhlig; 6. What's in a Life? Some forgotten faces of Euripides Johanna Hanink; 7. Lives from stone: epigraphy and biography in Classical and Hellenistic Greece Polly Low; Part IV. Laughing Matters and Lives of the Mind: 8. On bees, poets and Plato: ancient biographers' representations of the creative process Mary Lefkowitz; 9. The life and philosophy of Aristippus in the Socratic epistles Kurt Lampe; 10. Imagination dead imagine: Diogenes Laertius' work of mourning Richard Fletcher; Part V. Portraits of the Artist: 11. 'It is Orpheus when there is singing': the mythical fabric of musical lives Pauline A. LeVen; 12. The artists as anecdote: creating creators in ancient texts and modern art history Verity Platt; 13. Freud and the biography of antiquity Miriam Leonard; Envoi John Henderson; Works cited.
List of illustrations; Part I. Opening Remarks: 1. Orientation: what we mean by 'creative lives' Johanna Hanink and Richard Fletcher; 2. 'Lives' as parameter: the privileging of ancient lives as a category of research c.1900 Constanze Güthenke; Part II. Dead Poets Societies: 3. Close encounters with the ancient poets Barbara Graziosi; 4. Recognizing Virgil Andrew Laird; Part III. Lives in Unexpected Places: 5. A poetic possession: Pindar's Lives of the poets Anna Uhlig; 6. What's in a Life? Some forgotten faces of Euripides Johanna Hanink; 7. Lives from stone: epigraphy and biography in Classical and Hellenistic Greece Polly Low; Part IV. Laughing Matters and Lives of the Mind: 8. On bees, poets and Plato: ancient biographers' representations of the creative process Mary Lefkowitz; 9. The life and philosophy of Aristippus in the Socratic epistles Kurt Lampe; 10. Imagination dead imagine: Diogenes Laertius' work of mourning Richard Fletcher; Part V. Portraits of the Artist: 11. 'It is Orpheus when there is singing': the mythical fabric of musical lives Pauline A. LeVen; 12. The artists as anecdote: creating creators in ancient texts and modern art history Verity Platt; 13. Freud and the biography of antiquity Miriam Leonard; Envoi John Henderson; Works cited.
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