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Title The limits of ancient biography / editors, Brian McGing and Judith Mossman ; contributors, Ewen Bowie [and others]
Published Swansea : Classical Press of Wales ; Oakville, CT : Distributor in the United States, David Brown Book Co., 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 447 pages)
Contents Early lives -- Biography in the ancient world : the story of the rise of David / Andrew D.H. Mayes -- The biographies of poets : the case of Solon / Elizabeth Irwin -- Holy lives? -- Reading the gospels as biography / Richard A. Burridge -- Gospel and genre : some reservations / Mark Edwards -- Mark's gospel and ancient biography / Sean Freyne -- The acts of the Apostles as biography / Justin Taylor -- Cynic influence upon first-century Judaism and early Christianity? / John Moles -- Philo's adaptation of the Bible in his Life of Moses / Brian McGing -- Portrait of the Sophist as a young man / Ewen Bowie -- Holy and not so holy : on the interpretation of late antique biography / John Dillon -- Self-presentation -- Justice for Justus : a re-examination of Justus of Tiberias' role in Josephus' Autobiography / Zuleika Rodgers -- Sacred writing, sacred reading : the function of Aelius Aristides' self-presentation as author in the Sacred tales / Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis -- Dreams of glory : Lucian as autobiographer / Noreen Humble and Keith Sidwell -- The cynic and Christian lives of Lucian's Peregrinus / Jason König -- Lives on the edge -- Breaking the bounds : writing about Julius Caesar / Christopher Pelling -- Travel writing, history, and biography / Judith Mossman -- 'This in-between book' : language, politics and genre in the Agricola / Tim Whitmarsh -- Writing lives -- Biography in letters : biography and letters / Michael Trapp -- Lords of the flies : literacy and tyranny in imperial biography / Alexei V. Zadorojnyi -- Beyond the limits -- Beyond the limits of Greek biography : Galen from Alexandria to the Arabs / Simon Swain
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Biography -- To 500.
Classical biography.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Classical biography
Biography
Antike
Biografie
Griechisch
Latein
Biografieën.
Oudheid.
Biographie -- lateinische -- Kongressbericht.
Biographie -- griechische -- Kongressbericht.
Lebensbeschreibung.
Biography -- To 500.
Classical biography.
Biography as a literary form.
Griechisch.
Latein.
Genre/Form Biography as a literary form
Dublin (2001)
Kongress.
Form Electronic book
Author McGing, B. C
Mossman, Judith
LC no. 2007296323
ISBN 9781910589489
1910589489