The Oxford handbook of ancient biography
| Parallelsachtitel: |
Handbook of ancient biography Ancient biography |
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Temmerman, Koen de
, [HerausgeberIn]
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2021.
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| Umfang/Format: |
1 online resource (800 pages). |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Oxford handbooks online.
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| ISBN: | 9780191885372 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198703013.001.0001 |
| Schlagworte: | |
| Parallelausgabe: |
The Oxford handbook of ancient biography (Print version) |
| Online-Zugang: |
Available online |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Writing (about) ancient Lives: scholarship, definitions and concepts / Koen De Temmerman
- Ex uno fonte multi rivuli? Unity and multiplicity in Hellenistic biography / Tiziano Dorandi
- Life of Homer / Suzanne Saïd
- Nepos' Life of Atticus and Nicolaus' Life of Caesar and the genre of political biography in the age of Augustus / Rex Stem
- Biography and Praise in Trajanic Rome: Tacitus' Agricola and Pliny's Panegyricus / Christopher Whitton
- Plutarch's Parallel Lives / Aristoula Georgiadou, Michele A. Lucchesi
- Plutarch: Lives of the Caesars (Galba, Otho) and Lives of Aratus and Artaxerxes / Luc Van der Stockt
- Types of life-writing in Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars and Illustrious Men / Dennis Pausch
- The Alexander Romance / Corinne Jouanno
- The Biographer as Literary Artist: Form and Content in Philostratus' Apollonius / Adam M. Kemezis
- Lucian: Satirical and Idealising Lives (Peregrinus, Alexander, Demonax) / Graham Anderson
- What are Bioi/Vitae? Generic self-consciousness in ancient biography / Sean A. Adams
- Diogenes Laertius and philosophical lives / Stephen White
- Augustine's Confessions as Autobiography / Michael Stuart Williams
- Solitude and Biography in Jerome's Life of Hilarion / Jason König
- A Bishop's Biography: Eusebius of Caesarea and the Life of Constantine / James Corke-Webster
- Ancient Biographies of Statesmen / Jacqueline Klooster
- Sophists / Kendra Eshleman
- Philosophers and their Neoplatonic Lives: Problems and Paradigms / Graeme Miles
- Individual and collected lives in Antiquity / Jeffrey Beneker
- Holy men: Wonderworkers, apostles and saints / Danny Praet, Marc Van Uytfanghe
- Martyrs and Life-Writing in Late Antiquity / Koen De Temmerman, Danny Praet
- Monastic Lives / Mark Edwards
- Syriac Biography / Muriel Debié
- Arabic Biography / Faustina Doufikar-Aerts
- Coptic Life Stories / Arietta Papaconstantinou
- Armenian Biography in Late Antiquity / S. Peter Cowe
- Biographical monuments: Displaying selves and lives in Ancient Egypt / Elizabeth Frood
- Engraved lives: Biographical material in epigraphical sources / Christof Schuler, Florian R. Forster
- Popular biography / Ioannis M. Konstantakos
- Depicted lives: The role of the visual arts in sophistic self-representation / Zahra Newby
- Triumphant lives: portraits, statues and triumphal arches in imperial Rome / Eric R. Varner
- Byzantine Biography / Martin Hinterberger
- Roman Biography in the Medieval West: Did Classical Texts Facilitate Complex Literary Portraits in the Middle Ages? / Lars Boje Mortensen
- Ancient Biography and the Italian Renaissance: Old Models and New Developments / Thomas Hendrickson
- Ancient Biography in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Enrica Zanin
- After-Lives: Biographical Receptions of the Greek and Roman Poets in the Twentieth Century / Nora Goldschmidt
- Isocrates' Evagoras: The educational ends of the 'first' biography in Classical Greece / Takis Poulakos
- Jewish biography / Joseph Geiger
- Christian biography / Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
- Fifth-century preliminaries / Christopher Pelling
- Xenophon of Athens / Noreen Humble.
