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- ISBN
- 9781107129122
- Book Title
- Writing Biography in Greece and Rome : Narrative Technique and Fictionalization
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Ancient & Classical
- Item Weight
- 22.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 354 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
1107129125
ISBN-13
9781107129122
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219186330
Product Key Features
Book Title
Writing Biography in Greece and Rome : Narrative Technique and Fictionalization
Number of Pages
354 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Ancient & Classical
Genre
Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
22.6 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2016-004905
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
880.09
Table Of Content
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.
Synopsis
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., Examines a range of ancient biographical texts, exploring how formal narrative categories such as time, space and character are constructed and how they address the borderline between historicity and fictionality. Makes a major contribution to the study of ancient biographical writing and to broader narratological approaches to ancient texts.
LC Classification Number
PA3043.W75 2016
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