Ancient Biography
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Ancient Biography
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Author : Francis Cairns
language : en
Publisher: ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
Release Date : 2018
Ancient Biography written by Francis Cairns and has been published by ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Biography categories.
Ancient Biography contains revised versions of most of the papers given at the Colloquium Narrating Lives: Biography and Identity in Antiquity (held in 2015 at Florida State University), along with contributions from other scholars in the fields of biographical writing and identity. A combined bibliography and indexes are included.
The Oxford Handbook Of Ancient Biography
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Author : Koen De Temmerman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-12-10
The Oxford Handbook Of Ancient Biography written by Koen De Temmerman and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-10 with Literary Collections categories.
Biography is one of the most widespread literary genres worldwide. Biographies and autobiographies of actors, politicians, Nobel Prize winners, and other famous figures have never been more prominent in book shops and publishers' catalogues. This Handbook offers a wide-ranging, multi-authored survey on biography in Antiquity from its earliest representatives to Late Antiquity. It aims to be a broad introduction and a reference tool on the one hand, and to move significantly beyond the state-of-the-art on the other. To this end, it addresses conceptual questions about this sprawling genre, offers both in-depth readings of key texts and diachronic studies, and deals with the reception of ancient biography across multiple eras up to the present day. In addition, it takes a wide approach to the concept of ancient biography by examining biographical depictions in different textual and visual media (epigraphy, sculpture, architecture) and by providing outlines of biographical developments in ancient and late antique cultures other than Graeco-Roman. Highly accessible, this book aims at a broad audience ranging from specialists to newcomers in the field. Chapters provide English translations of ancient (and modern) terminology and citations. In addition, all individual chapters are concluded by a section containing suggestions for further reading on their specific topic.
The Limits Of Ancient Biography
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Author : Brian McGing
language : en
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Release Date : 2007-12-31
The Limits Of Ancient Biography written by Brian McGing and has been published by Classical Press of Wales this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-31 with History categories.
The genre of biography in the ancient world is interestingly diverse and permeable and deserves intensive study, bearing as it does on ideas of characterization and the individual. This volume considers both the form and the content of biography across the ancient world, and is particularly interested in the frontiers with other related genres, such as history. The papers range from the Old Testament to the Arab world, from the New Testament to the Lives of Saints, from the classic Greek and Roman biographers to less well known practitioners of the art.
Epochs Of Greek And Roman Biography
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Author : Duane Reed Stuart
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2021-01-08
Epochs Of Greek And Roman Biography written by Duane Reed Stuart and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-08 with Literary Collections categories.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1928.
The Art Of Biography In Antiquity
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Author : Tomas Hägg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-04-05
The Art Of Biography In Antiquity written by Tomas Hägg and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Examines the whole spectrum of Greek and Roman biography, which explores the virtues and vices of philosophers, statesmen and poets.
The Development Of Greek Biography
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Author : Arnaldo Momigliano
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1993
The Development Of Greek Biography written by Arnaldo Momigliano and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Arnaldo Momigliano traces the growth of ancient biography from the fifth century to the first century B.C. He asks new questions about the origins and development of Greek biography, and makes full use of new evidence uncovered in recent decades from papyri and other sources. By clarifying the social and intellectual implication of the fact that the Greeks kept biography and autobiography distinct from historiography, he contributes to an understanding of a basic dichotomy in the Western tradition of historical writing. The Development of Greek Biography is fully annotated, and includes a bibliography designed to serve as an introduction to the study of biography in general.
After Ancient Biography
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Author : Robert Fraser
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-08-25
After Ancient Biography written by Robert Fraser and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages. Close readings of ancient texts are framed by an assessment of their influence on the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon, and on the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, of responses to ancient biography of modern critics, and of its visible legacy in art and film. Crucially it asks what modern biographers can learn from their ancient predecessors. Are the challenges involved in life-writing still the same? Have working methods changed, and in what ways? What in the context of biographical writing is truth, and how are its interests best served? How is it possible, now as then, honestly to convey a life?
History And Biography In Ancient Thought
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Author : Bruno Gentili
language : en
Publisher: London Studies in Classical Ph
Release Date : 1988
History And Biography In Ancient Thought written by Bruno Gentili and has been published by London Studies in Classical Ph this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this volume, the authors analyse ancient theories concerning the nature and the aims of historiography as well as biography. Such theories are investigated in their historical development, with special regard to the problem of oral communication in antiquity.
Famous Men Of Ancient Times
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Author : Samuel Griswold Goodrich
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 1843
Famous Men Of Ancient Times written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1843 with Biography categories.
The reader of these pages will perhaps remark, that the length of the following sketches is hardly proportioned to the relative importance of the several subjects, regarded in a merely historical point of view. In explanation of this fact, the author begs leave to say, that, while he intended to present a series of the great beacon lights that shine along the shores of the past, and thus throw a continuous gleam over the dusky sea of ancient history, -he had still other views. His chief aim is moral culture; and the several articles have been abridged or extended, as this controlling purpose might be subserved. It may be proper to make one observation more. If the author has been somewhat more chary of his eulogies upon the great men that figure in the pages of Grecian and Roman story, than is the established custom, he has only to plead in his vindication, that he has viewed them in the same light-weighed them in the same balance-measured them by the same standard, as he should have done the more familiar characters of our own day, making due allowance for the times and circumstances in which they acted. He has stated the results of such a mode of appreciation; yet if the master spirits of antiquity are thus shorn of some portion of their glory, the writer still believes that the interest they excite is not lessened, and that the instruction they afford is not diminished. On the contrary, it seems to him that the study of ancient biography, if it be impartial and discriminating, is one of the most entertaining and useful to which the mind can be applied
Biography In Late Antiquity
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Author : Patricia Cox
language : en
Publisher: ACLS History E-Book Project
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Biography In Late Antiquity written by Patricia Cox and has been published by ACLS History E-Book Project this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with History categories.
A study of the thought behind the ancient biographies of holy men.