The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography

Herausgeber: De Temmerman, Koen

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Produktbeschreibung

This Handbook presents the first 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 800
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 2040g
• ISBN-13: 9780198703013
• ISBN-10: 0198703015
• Artikelnr.: 58814666

Autorenporträt

Koen De Temmerman is a Professor of Classics and European Literature at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the author of Crafting Characters: Heroes and Heroines in the Ancient Greek Novel (OUP 2014) and the co-editor of Writing Biography in Greece and Rome: Narrative Technique and Fictionalization (Cambridge 2016, with K. Demoen) and Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature (Leiden 2018, with E. van Emde Boas).

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I. Introduction
* 1: Koen De Temmerman: Writing (About) Ancient Lives: Scholarship,
Definitions and Concepts
* 2: Sean A. Adams: What are Bioi/Vitae? Generic Self-Consciousness in
Ancient Biography
* 3: Jeffrey Beneker: Individual and Collected Lives in Antiquity
* 4: Ioannis M. Konstantakos: Popular Biography
* 5: Joseph Geiger: Jewish Biography
* 6: Scott Fitzgerald Johnson: Christian Biography
* Part II. Reading Biographies
* 7: Christopher Pelling: Fifth-Century Preliminaries
* 8: Takis Poulakos: Isocrates' Evagoras: The Educational Ends of the
'First' Biography in Classical Greece
* 9: Noreen Humble: Xenophon of Athens
* 10: Tiziano Dorandi: Ex uno fonte multi rivuli? Unity and
Multiplicity in Hellenistic Biography
* 11: Rex Stem: Nepos' Life of Atticus, Nicolaus' Life of Caesar and
the Genre of Political Biography in the Age of Augustus
* 12: Christopher Whitton: Biography and Praise in Trajanic Rome:
Tacitus' Agricola and Pliny's Panegyricus
* 13: Aristoula Georgiadou and Michele A. Lucchesi: Plutarch's
Parallel Lives
* 14: Luc Van der Stockt: Plutarch: Lives of the Caesars (Galba, Otho)
and Lives of Aratus and Artaxerxes
* 15: Dennis Pausch: Types of Life-Writing in Suetonius' Lives of the
Caesars and Illustrious Men
* 16: Corinne Jouanno: The Alexander Romance
* 17: Graham Anderson: Lucian: Satirical and Idealising Lives (
Peregrinus, Alexander, Demonax)
* 18: Adam Kemezis: The Biographer as Literary Artist: Form and Content
in Philostratus' Apollonius
* 19: Stephen White: Diogenes Laertius and Philosophical Lives
* 20: James Corke-Webster: A Bishop's Biography: Eusebius of Caesarea
and The Life of Constantine
* 21: Michael Stuart Williams: Augustine's Confessions as Autobiography
* 22: Jason König: Solitude and Biography in Jerome's Life of Hilarion
* Part III. Tracing Biographees
* 23: Suzanne Saïd: : Lives of Homer
* 24: Jacqueline Klooster: Ancient Biographies of Statesmen
* 25: Kendra Eshleman: Sophists
* 26: Graeme Miles: Philosophers and their Neoplatonic Lives:
Problemsand Paradigms
* 27: Danny Praet: Holy Men: Lives of Miracle Workers, Apostles, and
Saints
* 28: Koen De Temmerman and Danny Praet: Martyrs and Life-Writing in
Late Antiquity
* 29: Mark Edwards: Monastic Lives
* Part IV. Cultures
* 30: Muriel Debié: Syriac Biography
* 31: Arietta Papaconstantinou: Coptic Life Stories
* 32: S. Peter Cowe: Armenian Biography in Late Antiquity
* 33: Faustina Doufikar-Aerts: Arabic Biography
* Part V. Media
* 34: Elizabeth Frood: Biographical Monuments: Displaying Selves and
Lives in Ancient Egypt
* 35: Christof Schuler and Florian R. Forster: Engraved Lives:
Biographical Material in Epigraphical Sources
* 36: Zahra Newby: Depicted Lives: The Role of The Visual Arts in
Sophistic Self-Representation
* 37: Eric Varner: Triumphant Lives: Portraits, Statues and Triumphal
Arches in Imperial Rome
* Part VI. Reception
* 38: Martin Hinterberger: Byzantine Biography
* 39: Lars Boje Mortensen: Roman Biography in the Medieval West: Did
Classical Texts Facilitate Complex Literary Portraits in the Middle
Ages?
* 40: Thomas Hendrickson: Ancient Biography and the Italian
Renaissance: Old Models and New Developments
* 41: Enrica Zanin: Ancient Biography in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Centuries
* 42: Nora Goldschmidt: After-Lives: Biographical Receptions of Greek
and Roman Poets in the Twentieth Century