The Oxford handbook of ancient biography

Parallelsachtitel: Handbook of ancient biography
Ancient biography
Weitere Verfasser: Temmerman, Koen de , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (800 pages).
Schriftenreihe: Oxford handbooks online.
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.