Ancient biography : identity through Lives
| Körperschaft: |
Langford Latin Seminar Tallahassee, Florida)
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Cairns, Francis
Luke, Trevor S. , [HerausgeberIn] |
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Prenton, UK :
Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd,
2018.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xiv, 310 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
ARCA, classical and medieval texts, papers, and monographs.
55. Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 17 |
| ISBN: | 9780995461215 099546121X |
| ISSN: | 0309-5541 ; 1740-8652 ; |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction / Francis Cairnes, Trevor Luke
- Pindar, 'Lover of Athens': Dithyramb fr.76 and the biographical tradition / Flore Kimmel-Clauzet
- Exemplarity and identity in Cornelius Nepos' on foreign generals / Rex Stem
- Reading ethnic identity in the Historia Augusta / David Rohrbacher
- Polyaenus and Polycrates' rise to power / Marcaline Boyd
- Tyrant and anti-tyrant : archetypes and exemplarity in Cornelius Nepos' Sicilian lives / Alexander Skufca
- Death by narrative in Suetonius' lives / Cynthia Damon
- Ruler cult and ancient biography / Federicomaria Muccioli
- Life is but a dream: biography and dream-divination / Daniel Harris-McCoy
- The Fassio of St. Perpetua and the creation of a hero-martyr / Jennifer A. Rea
- Comparative eschatology in Alexander's letter to Olympias and the book of Revelation / Matthew W. Ferguson
- Plutarch's heroes and the 'biographical synecdoche' / Alexei Zadorojnyi
- Cassius Dio's contemporary history as memoir and its implications for authorial identity / Andrew Scott
- Platonists and their lives / Svetla Slaveva-Griffin.
