Description |
1 online resource (xii, 288 pages) |
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The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature |
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The transformation of the classical heritage ; 31 |
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Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
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Transformation of the classical heritage ; 31.
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Contents |
Philosophic lives and the philosophic life: Porphyry and Iamblichus / Gillian Clark -- Birth, death, and divinity in Porphyry's Life of Plotinus / M.J. Edwards -- Form and meaning: the Vita Constantini and the Vita Antonii / Averil Cameron -- Antony as teacher in the Greek Life / Philip Rousseau -- Philosophy and simplicity: the problem of classical education in early Christian biography / Samuel Rubenson -- Your honor, my reputation: St. Gregory of Nazianzus's funeral oration on St. Basil the Great / Frederick W. Norris -- How to praise a friend: St. Gregory of Nazianzus's funeral oration for St. Basil the Great / David Konstan -- Eros transformed: same-sex love and divine desire, reflections on the erotic vocabulary in St. Gregory of Nazianzus's speech on St. Basil the Great / Jostein Børtnes -- The rhetoric of praise in the private orations of Themistius / Robert J. Penella -- Strategies of representation in collective biography: constructing the subject as holy / Patricia Cox Miller -- The Syriac life of Rabbula and Syrian Hellenism / G.W. Bowersock |
Summary |
The period from AD250 and AD 450 witnessed the creation of a distinctive Christian Greek culture in the eastern part of the Roman empire. This text focuses on the transition from ancient to Christian Hellenism, drawing on the literature of the time |
Analysis |
Biography as a literary form |
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Greek prose literature - History and criticism |
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Greece - Biography - History and criticism |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-271) and indexes |
Notes |
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Greek prose literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Authors, Greek -- Biography -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Biography as a literary form -- Congresses
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Praise in literature -- Congresses
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Authors, Greek -- Biography
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Biography
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Biography as a literary form
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Greek prose literature
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Praise in literature
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Biografieën.
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Lofredes.
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Grieks.
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Panegyrikus
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Frühchristentum
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Spätantike
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Christentum
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Literatur
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Biografie
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Greek prose literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Authors, Greek -- Biography -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Praise in literature -- Congresses.
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Biographie (genre littéraire) grecque -- Congrès.
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Éloges -- Dans la littérature -- Congrès.
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Panégyriques -- Histoire et critique -- Congrès.
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Biographies -- Histoire et critique -- Congrès.
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SUBJECT |
Greece -- Biography -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Greece
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Griechenland Altertum
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Greece -- Biography -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Bergen <Norwegen, 1996>
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Griechisch.
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Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Hägg, Tomas.
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Rousseau, Philip.
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Høgel, Christian.
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ISBN |
9780520925052 |
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052092505X |