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Author : Tomas Hägg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107016699
Examines the whole spectrum of Greek and Roman biography, which explores the virtues and vices of philosophers, statesmen and poets.
Author : Professor Stephen Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Biography as a literary form
ISBN : 1139380168
"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 : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Biography as a literary form
ISBN : UCAL:$B288562
Author : Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.)
Publisher : Menil Foundation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Art, Ancient
ISBN : 0300250878
A revealing look at ancient art in the Menil Collection that addresses the problem of objects lacking archaeological context This innovative anthology discusses a diversity of ancient Mediterranean objects--a Mesopotamian votive figure, a Egyptian relief from the New Kingdom, and a Greek Geometric fawn among them--in the Menil Collection and three other US museums. It offers new models for understanding works from antiquity that lack archaeological context. Essays by 13 authors written with the layperson in mind employ a creative mixture of iconography, technical studies, and modern provenance research to gain insight into the meaning of the objects themselves and what they can teach us more broadly aboutarchaeology, art history, and collecting practices. They take on complex issues of cultural heritage, legality, and taste to bring to life works that are often consigned to either the imperial past or a conceptual limbo. Essays on related groups or single objects introduce fresh frameworks to engage with the multilayered history these objects represent. The eight object biographies on ancient artifacts in the Menil are the first in-depth studies published on the collection. Essays by seven university professors probe works in their areas of expertise, while those by seven curators lay bare one object biography; frame provenance studies at the San Antonio Museum of Art, Getty Museum, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and survey war's effect on ancient works. The editors' introduction and an epilogue responding to the other 13 texts review theoretical and practical issues in the study of artifacts lacking archaeological findspots (provenience). Recommended for programs and libraries in museum studies, archaeology, and art history; art and heritage law programs; and readers fascinated by cold-case detective work on the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean. Distributed for the Menil Collection
Author : Koen De Temmerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191007514
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.
Author : Robert Fraser
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030351694
Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages. Close readings of ancient texts are framed by an assessment of their influence on the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon, and on the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, of responses to ancient biography of modern critics, and of its visible legacy in art and film. Crucially it asks what modern biographers can learn from their ancient predecessors. Are the challenges involved in life-writing still the same? Have working methods changed, and in what ways? What in the context of biographical writing is truth, and how are its interests best served? How is it possible, now as then, honestly to convey a life?
Author : William Roscoe Thayer
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1359689141
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Author : Richard Fletcher,Johanna Hanink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781107159082
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 : Tomas Hägg,Philip Rousseau,Christian Høgel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520223888
How classical narrative models were adapted as early Christian culture took shape and developed.
Author : Roy K. Gibson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199948192
Pliny the Younger (c. 60-112 C.E.)--senator and consul in the Rome of emperors Domitian and Trajan, eyewitness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, and early 'persecutor' of Christians on the Black Sea--remains Rome's best documented private individual between Cicero and Augustine. No Roman writer, not even Vergil, ties his identity to the regions of Italy more successfully than Pliny. His individuality can be captured by focusing on the range of locales in which he lived: from his hometown of Comum (Como) at the foot of the Italian Alps, down through the villa and farms he owned in Umbria, to the senate and courtrooms of Rome and the magnificent residence he owned on the coast near the capital. Organized geographically, Man of High Empire is the first full-scale biography devoted solely to the Younger Pliny. Reserved, punctilious, occasionally patronizing, and perhaps inclined to overvalue his achievements, Pliny has seemed to some the ancient equivalent of Mr. Collins, the unctuous vicar of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Roy K. Gibson reveals a man more complex than this unfair comparison suggests. An innovating landowner in Umbria and a deeply generous benefactor in Comum, Pliny is also a consul who plays with words in Rome and dispenses summary justice in the provinces. A solicitous, if rather traditional, husband in northern Italy, Pliny is also a literary modernist in Rome, and--more surprisingly--a secret pessimist about Trajan, the 'best' of emperors. Pliny's life is a window on to the Empire at its zenith. The book concludes with an archaeological tour guide of the sites associated with Pliny.
Author : Adrian Marino
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791428931
A comprehensive examination of the meaning, history, and evolution of the basic notion of "literature" from antiquity to the seventeenth century.
Author : Paul Murray Kendall
Publisher : New York, Norton
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Biography (as a literary form)
ISBN : UOM:39015002130543
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 : Barnas Sears,Bela Bates Edwards,Cornelius Conway Felton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Classical philology
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081380396
Author : Brian McGing,Judith Mossman
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589489
The genre of biography in the ancient world is interestingly diverse and permeable and deserves intensive study, bearing as it does on ideas of characterization and the individual. This volume considers both the form and the content of biography across the ancient world, and is particularly interested in the frontiers with other related genres, such as history. The papers range from the Old Testament to the Arab world, from the New Testament to the Lives of Saints, from the classic Greek and Roman biographers to less well known practitioners of the art.
Author : Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892366680
"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.
