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1 online resource (xx, 424 pages) : illustration (black and white) |
| Contents |
Basanos kai paidia : image, characterization, and individuation in sympotic literature / David Gribble -- Characterization in Herodotus / Emily Baragwanath -- Putting up pyramids, characterizing kings / Katherine Clarke -- Herodotus on being 'good' : characterization and explanation / Mathieu de Bakker -- The medium is the message : Herodotus and his logoi / Carolyn Dewald -- Plutarch, Herodotus, and the historian's character / John Marincola -- Self-characterization and political thought in Xenophon's anabasis / Tim Rood -- Implied characterization and the meaning of history in Xenophon's hellenica / Michael A. Flower -- Aspect and subordination in Plutarchan narrative / Timothy E. Duff -- Dressed for success? Clothing in Plutarch's demetrius / Judith Mossman -- The love of noble deeds : Plutarch's portrait of Aratus of Sicyon / Philip Stadter -- Plutarch's numa and the rhetoric of aetiology / Matthew Fox -- Plutarch and Dio on Cicero at the trial of Milo / Kynn Fotheringham -- The rapture and the sorrow : characterization in Sulla's memoirs / Harriet I. Flower -- Characterizing Augustus / Mark Toher -- Teachers and students in Roman Athens / Ewen Bowie -- Tacitus and Germanicus : monuments and models / A.J. Woodman -- At the end of the rainbow : Nero and Dido's gold (Tacitus annals 16.1-3) / Rhiannon Ash -- Colour in Suetonius' lives of the Caesars / Alexei V. Zadorojnyi -- Bigger from a distance : Appian on Antiochus 'the great' / Luke Pitcher -- Three readings of character in the periochae of Livy / D.S. Levene -- From Jerusalem to the ends of the earth : the meaning of Paul's two names at Acts 13.9 / Jonathan Williams -- Pagan and Christian sex lives in the Roman Empire / Simon Swain -- Not the whole story? : moralizing biography and Imitatio Christi / Teresa Morgan |
| Summary |
Over recent decades, the debate about how individuals are portrayed in prose-texts of Greek and Roman historiography and biography has evolved in increasingly nuanced ways. The sorts of questions which now tend to be raised concerning such prose-texts brings them closely into line with the more subtle analysis usually reserved for poetry. Moreover, the engagement with literary strategies at work in historiography and biography has a fundamental impact both on the relationship of these texts with poetry and on the status of these genres as historical evidence. In twenty-four chapters written by leading experts in their fields, 'Fame and infamy' considers the central question of characterization within Greek and Roman historiography and biography from a fresh perspective, combining close readings of texts of individual authors and overarching exploration into questions of how and why characterization in the ancient world evolves in the ways that it does. Spanning a wide period of time, and focusing on writers from both the Greek and Roman worlds - from Herodotus to Cassius Dio, and from Cicero to Suetonius and beyond - this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of the genres of historiography and biography in the ancient world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 9, 2015) |
| Subject |
Biography -- To 500.
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Historiography -- Rome
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Historiography -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
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Classical biography.
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Classical biography
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Biography
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Historiography
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Greece
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Pelling, C. B. R., honouree.
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Ash, Rhiannon, editor.
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Mossman, Judith, editor.
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Titchener, Frances B., 1954- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191799174 |
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0191799173 |
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