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Author | : Koen De Temmerman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2016-05-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1107129125 |
Explores narrative techniques in ancient biography and how they fictionalize narrative.
Author | : Koen De Temmerman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781316599228 |
Explores narrative techniques in ancient biography and how they fictionalize narrative.
Author | : Plutarch |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2005-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0486445763 |
Offers detailed anecdotal biographies of some of the most influential figures in ancient Greece and Rome, including Pericles, Alexander the Great, and Julius Caesar.
Author | : Stephen Usher |
Publisher | : Bristol Classical Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 1997-03-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780862921521 |
Our understanding of Greek and Roman civilization is in considerable measure a product of the intelligence and literary skills of its historians. Writing at different times and from different vantage points, the surviving historians illustrate the influences to which the genre was subjected in the course of its development. After Herodotus had established history as an independent form of literature, Thucydides defined its purpose and set a high standard of scientific and literary skill. Xenophon introduced new and abiding characteristics and Polybius repudiated the influences of rhetoric and drama and introduced Hellenistic qualities and an new focus - Rome. Sallust, Caesar, Tacitus and Livy among others, commented on the affairs of the Roman Republic and Empire. This book provides a survey of the historians of the ancient Greek and Roman world, exporing their surviving work, style and influences.
Author | : David Matz |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0313387397 |
Collecting documents culled from the writings of ancient Greek and Roman authors, this book provides a glimpse of what life was like in ancient times and illustrates the relevance of these long-ago civilizations to modern life. Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life sheds light on various aspects of Greek and Roman daily life by examining excerpts from the works of ancient authors who wrote about these topics. Written to help readers truly understand what life within an ancient civilization was like, each entry is preceded by background information and followed by thought-provoking questions. This book covers fascinating topics such as domestic life, employment, housing, food and clothing, sports and games, public safety, education, health care, politics, and religion. Each chapter contains several relevant documents excerpted from the writings of ancient authors accompanied by background information, reading and thought questions, bibliographical data, and suggestions for further reading. An introductory essay to the volume, a guide for evaluating original sources, and bio-notes on the ancient authors are also included. As with other volumes in the Greenwood Voices of an Era series, this book contains much more than just a series of documents: it provides the information and tools that will promote critical thinking and support the research process.
Author | : Plutarch |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 1260 |
Release | : 2000-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0679641742 |
Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives,' written at the beginning of the second century A.D., form a brilliant social history of the ancient world. They were originally presented in a series of books that gave an account of one Greek and one Roman life, followed by a comparison of the two: Theseus and Romulus, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demosthenes and Cicero, Demetrius and Antony. Plutarch was interested in the personalities of his subjects and on the way their characters molded their actions, leading them to tragedy or victory. He was a moralist of the highest order. 'It was for the sake of others that I first commenced writing biographies,' he says, 'but I find myself proceeding and attaching myself to it for my own; the virtues of these great men serving me as a sort of looking-glass, in which I may see how to adjust and adorn my own life.' Plutarch was a man of immense erudition who had traveled widely throughout the Roman Empire, and the Lives are richly anecdotal and full of detail. They were the principal source of Shakespeare's Roman plays.
Author | : Arnaldo Momigliano |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674200418 |
Arnaldo Momigliano traces the growth of ancient biography from the fifth century to the first century B.C. He asks new questions about the origins and development of Greek biography, and makes full use of new evidence uncovered in recent decades from papyri and other sources. By clarifying the social and intellectual implication of the fact that the Greeks kept biography and autobiography distinct from historiography, he contributes to an understanding of a basic dichotomy in the Western tradition of historical writing. The Development of Greek Biography is fully annotated, and includes a bibliography designed to serve as an introduction to the study of biography in general.
Author | : Duane Reed Stuart |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Plutarchus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 897 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780852291634 |
Author | : Koen De Temmerman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2020-12-10 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 019100751X |
Biography is one of the most widespread literary genres worldwide. Biographies and autobiographies of actors, politicians, Nobel Prize winners, and other famous figures have never been more prominent in book shops and publishers' catalogues. This Handbook offers a wide-ranging, multi-authored survey on biography in Antiquity from its earliest representatives to Late Antiquity. It aims to be a broad introduction and a reference tool on the one hand, and to move significantly beyond the state-of-the-art on the other. To this end, it addresses conceptual questions about this sprawling genre, offers both in-depth readings of key texts and diachronic studies, and deals with the reception of ancient biography across multiple eras up to the present day. In addition, it takes a wide approach to the concept of ancient biography by examining biographical depictions in different textual and visual media (epigraphy, sculpture, architecture) and by providing outlines of biographical developments in ancient and late antique cultures other than Graeco-Roman. Highly accessible, this book aims at a broad audience ranging from specialists to newcomers in the field. Chapters provide English translations of ancient (and modern) terminology and citations. In addition, all individual chapters are concluded by a section containing suggestions for further reading on their specific topic.