Writing biography in Greece and Rome : narrative technique and fictionalization /
"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, issu...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 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 Knobl; 16. A shaggy thigh story: Kalasiris on the life of Homer (Heliodorus 3.14) Luke V. Pitcher.
