Writing Biography in Greece and Rome

Herausgeber: De Temmerman, Koen; Demoen, Kristoffel

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Produktbeschreibung

Ancient biography is now a well-established and popular field of study among classicists as well as many scholars of literature and history more generally. In particular biographies offer important insights into the dynamics underlying ancient performance of the self and social behaviour, issues currently of crucial importance in classical studies. They also raise complex issues of narrativity and fictionalization. This volume examines a range of ancient texts which are or purport to be biographical and explores how formal narrative categories such as time, space and character are constructed and how they address (highlight, question, thematize, underscore or problematize) the borderline between historicity and fictionality. In doing so, it makes a major contribution not only to the study of ancient biographical writing but also to broader narratological approaches to ancient texts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 686g
• ISBN-13: 9781107129122
• ISBN-10: 1107129125
• Artikelnr.: 45052009

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Part I. Ancient Biography Revisited: 1. Ancient biography and
formalities of fiction Koen De Temmerman; 2. Civic and subversive biography
in antiquity David Konstan and Robyn Walsh; Part II. Individual
Biographies: 3. Life of Aesop: fictional biography as popular literature?
Grammatiki Karla; 4. Parallel narratives and possible worlds in Plutarch's
Life of Artaxerxes Eran Almagor; 5. Lucian's Life of Demonax: the Socratic
paradigm, individuality and personality Mark Beck; 6. The Apologia as a
mise en abyme in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana Patrick Robiano;
7. The emended monk: the Greek translation of Jerome's Vita Malchi Christa
Gray; 8. The divided cloak as redemptio militiae: Biblical stylization and
hagiographical intertextuality in Sulpicius Severus' Vita Martini Danny
Praet; Part III. Collective Biographies: 9. Mirroring virtues in Plutarch's
Lives of Agis, Cleomenes and Gracchi Maarten De Pourcq and Geert Roskam;
10. Dying philosophers in ancient biography: Zeno the Stoic and Epicurus
Eleni Kechagia; 11. Never say die! Assassinating emperors in Suetonius'
Lives of the Caesars Rhiannon Ash; 12. Poetry and fiction in Suetonius'
Illustrious Men Tristan Power; 13. Qui vitas aliorum scribere orditur:
narratological implications of fictional authors in the Historia Augusta
Diederik Burgersdijk; Part IV. Biographical Modes of Discourse: 14. Chion
of Heraclea: letters and the life of a tyrannicide John Paul Christy; 15.
Brief encounter: timing and biographical representation in the
Ps.-Hippocratic letters Ranja Knöbl; 16. A shaggy thigh story: Kalasiris on
the life of Homer (Heliodorus 3.14) Luke V. Pitcher.