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Author : Koen De Temmerman,Kristoffel Demoen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107129122
Explores narrative techniques in ancient biography and how they fictionalize narrative.
Author : Koen De Temmerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1316599221
Explores narrative techniques in ancient biography and how they fictionalize narrative.
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486119021
Written early in the 2nd century, Plutarch's Lives offers richly detailed and anecdotal profiles of some of the ancient world's mightiest and most influential figures, including those of Alexander the Great, Cicero, and Julius Caesar.
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X002757219
Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus and Theseus, Numa and Lycurgus, Fabius and Pericles, and many more powerful figures of ancient Greece and Rome. The present translation, originally published in 1683 in conjunction with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in 1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes and preface are also included in this edition. "From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1781395136
The complete text of Clough's edition of Plutarch's Lives; containing fifty lives and eighteen comparisons.
Author : Bret Mulligan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783741328
Trebia. Trasimene. Cannae. With three stunning victories, Hannibal humbled Rome and nearly shattered its empire. Even today Hannibal's brilliant, if ultimately unsuccessful, campaign against Rome during the Second Punic War (218-202 BC) make him one of history's most celebrated military leaders. This biography by Cornelius Nepos (c. 100-27 BC) sketches Hannibal's life from the time he began traveling with his father's army as a young boy, through his sixteen-year invasion of Italy and his tumultuous political career in Carthage, to his perilous exile and eventual suicide in the East. As Rome completed its bloody transition from dysfunctional republic to stable monarchy, Nepos labored to complete an innovative and influential collection of concise biographies. Putting aside the detailed, chronological accounts of military campaigns and political machinations that characterized most writing about history, Nepos surveyed Roman and Greek history for distinguished men who excelled in a range of prestigious occupations. In the exploits and achievements of these illustrious men, Nepos hoped that his readers would find models for the honorable conduct of their own lives. Although most of Nepos' works have been lost, we are fortunate to have his biography of Hannibal. Nepos offers a surprisingly balanced portrayal of a man that most Roman authors vilified as the most monstrous foe that Rome had ever faced. Nepos' straightforward style and his preference for common vocabulary make Life of Hannibal accessible for those who are just beginning to read continuous Latin prose, while the historical interest of the subject make it compelling for readers of every ability.
Author : Giacomo Fedeli,Henry Spelman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009464529
The first study of ancient Greek and Roman literary history as a phenomenon on its own terms.
Author : Ian Michael Plant
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0806136219
Despite a common perception that most writing in antiquity was produced by men, some important literature written by women during this period has survived. Edited by I. M. Plant, Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome is a comprehensive anthology of the surviving literary texts of women writers from the Graeco-Roman world that offers new English translations from the works of more than fifty women. From Sappho, who lived in the seventh century B.C., to Eudocia and Egeria of the fifth century A.D., the texts presented here come from a wide range of sources and span the fields of poetry and prose. Each author is introduced with a critical review of what we know about the writer, her work, and its significance, along with a discussion of the texts that follow. A general introduction looks into the problem of the authenticity of some texts attributed to women and places their literature into the wider literary and social contexts of the ancient Graeco-Roman world.
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780679641742
Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives,' written at the beginning of the second century A.D., form a brilliant social history of the ancient world. They were originally presented in a series of books that gave an account of one Greek and one Roman life, followed by a comparison of the two: Theseus and Romulus, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demosthenes and Cicero, Demetrius and Antony. Plutarch was interested in the personalities of his subjects and on the way their characters molded their actions, leading them to tragedy or victory. He was a moralist of the highest order. 'It was for the sake of others that I first commenced writing biographies,' he says, 'but I find myself proceeding and attaching myself to it for my own; the virtues of these great men serving me as a sort of looking-glass, in which I may see how to adjust and adorn my own life.' Plutarch was a man of immense erudition who had traveled widely throughout the Roman Empire, and the Lives are richly anecdotal and full of detail. They were the principal source of Shakespeare's Roman plays.
Author : Koen De Temmerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780198703013
This Handbook presents the first wide-ranging survey on biography in Antiquity from its earliest representations to Late Antiquity. It offers in-depth readings of key texts and diachronic studies, examines biographical depictions in different textual and visual media, and deals with the reception of ancient biography across multiple eras.
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1613 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625584458
Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving Parallel Lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a source of information about the individuals biographized, but also about the times in which they lived.
Author : Antony Spawforth
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300217117
The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives about the "civilized" Greek and Roman empires resisting the barbarians at the gate are far from accurate. Tony Spawforth, an esteemed scholar, author, and media contributor, follows the thread of civilization through more than six millennia of history. His story reveals that Greek and Roman civilization, to varying degrees, was supremely and surprisingly receptive to external influences, particularly from the East. From the rise of the Mycenaean world of the sixteenth century B.C., Spawforth traces a path through the ancient Aegean to the zenith of the Hellenic state and the rise of the Roman empire, the coming of Christianity and the consequences of the first caliphate. Deeply informed, provocative, and entirely fresh, this is the first and only accessible work that tells the extraordinary story of the classical world in its entirety.
Author : Jesper Majbom Madsen,Roger David Rees
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004278288
Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing explores the ways in which Greek and Latin writers from the late 1st to the 3rd century CE experienced and portrayed Roman cultural institutions and power. The central theme is the relationship between cultures as reflected in Greek and Latin authors’ responses to Roman power; in practice the collection revisits the orthodoxy of two separate intellectual groups, differentiated as much by cultural and political agenda as by language. The book features specialists in Greek and Roman literary and intellectual culture; it gathers papers on a variety of authors, across several literary genres, and through this spectrum, makes possible an informed and detailed comparison of Greek and Latin literary views of Roman power (in various manifestations, including military, religion, law and politics).
Author : Mary R. Lefkowitz,Maureen B. Fant
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0801844754
This highly acclaimed collection provides a unique look into the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women of all social classes-from wet nurses, prostitutes, and gladiatrixes to poets, musicians, intellectuals, priestesses, and housewives. The third edition adds new texts to sections throughout the book, vividly describing women's sentiments and circumstances through readings on love, bereavement, and friendship, as well as property rights, breast cancer, female circumcision, and women's roles in ancient religions, including Christianity and pagan cults.
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1768 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547401346
Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans or Parallel Lives is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, probably written at the beginning of the second century AD by Plutarch. Parallel Lives comprises 23 pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a source of information about the individuals described, but also about the times in which they lived. Volume I contains 13 pairs of biographies from Theseus and Romulus to Cimon and Lucullus, with comparisons.