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Author : Tomas Hägg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 36,27 MB
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 110701669X
Examines the whole spectrum of Greek and Roman biography, which explores the virtues and vices of philosophers, statesmen and poets.
Author : Tomas Hägg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 110737927X
Greek and Roman biography embraces much more than Plutarch, Suetonius and their lost Hellenistic antecedents. In this book Professor Hägg explores the whole range and diversity of ancient biography, from its Socratic beginnings to the Christian acquisition of the form in late antiquity. He shows how creative writers developed the lives of popular heroes like Homer, Aesop and Alexander and how the Christian gospels grew from bare sayings to full lives. In imperial Rome biography flourished in the works of Greek writers: Lucian's satire, Philostratus' full sophistic orchestration, Porphyry's intellectual portrait of Plotinus. Perhaps surprisingly, it is not political biography or the lives of poets that provide the main artery of ancient biography, but various kinds of philosophical, spiritual and ethical lives. Applying a consistent biographical reading to a representative set of surviving texts, this book opens up the manifold but often neglected art of biography in classical antiquity.
Author : William Roscoe Thayer
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,60 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Biography as a literary form
ISBN :
Author : Professor Stephen Harrison
Publisher :
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 21,57 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Biography as a literary form
ISBN : 9781139380164
"Memoir, encomium, romance In diesem Sinne ist der ideale, ja der postexistente Sokrates der reale, und der Sokrates samt seiner Xanthippe, den etwa die photographis-che Kleinkunst zeigen konnte, ist bedeutungslos, jaim hoheren Sinne unwirklich. Adolf von Harnack 1.1 glimpses of a prehistory The single most important force for the emergence of Greek biography in the fourth century BC, it has been convincingly argued, was the personal and historical impact of the figure of Socrates, as reconstructed or invented by the Socratic writers.1 But the one individual writer -- the creative mind -- to whom Greek biography owes most is no doubt Xenophon of Athens (ca. 430--ca. 354 bc), who wrote not only a memoir of Socrates, but also a prose encomium of the Spartan king Agesilaus and a romantic Life of the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great.2 Each of his three works displays a distinct biographical strategy: the privileged viewpoint at work in the Memorabilia, the novel literary structure of the Agesilaus, and the imaginative mixture of fact and fiction in the Cyropaedia. Xenophon accordingly provides three different literary models for future life-writers to merge and develop. Now, interest in the character, acts, and lifespan of an important individual was of course not unknown in Greek society before the fourth century. Speculation about the identity of Homer, his birthplace, travels, and death, began early, as the many references show that we find scattered in poetry, drama, and early prose. The corresponding legends of Hesiod's life had a starting-point in first person statements in his own poems, those of Archilochus perhaps also in local tradition on his native island of Paros. Solon and Simonides are further, not so distant, figures who attracted early"--
Author : William Roscoe Thayer
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,32 MB
Release : 2016-05-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781356810154
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : William Roscoe Thayer
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : pages
File Size : 50,18 MB
Release : 2016-05-25
Category :
ISBN : 9781359689146
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Georg Misch
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780415176088
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Paul Murray Kendall
Publisher : New York, Norton
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Biography (as a literary form)
ISBN :
Surveys the literary form from antiquity to the present, examines the relation between life-writing and the other literary arts, and discusses the problems, opportunities, and tensions that determine the general dimensions of biography.
Author : Richard Fletcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1107159083
This book examines how the biographical traditions of ancient poets and artists parallel the creative processes of biographers themselves, both within antiquity and beyond. Each chapter explores a range of biographical material that highlights the complexity of how readers and viewers imagine the lives of ancient creator-figures.
Author : Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 23,69 MB
Release : 2006-01-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892366682
"Translation of a foundational text for the disciplines of art history and archaeology. Offers a systematic history of art in ancient Egypt, Persia, Etruria, Rome, and, above all, Greece that synthesizes the visual and written evidence then available"--Provided by publisher.