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Titre: Ancient Biography: Identity through Lives
Condition: Neuf
EAN: 9780995461215
ISBN: 9780995461215
Publisher: Francis Cairns Publications Ltd
Format: Relié
Date de publication: 2018-05-08
Item Height: 216
Item Length: 138.00
Contributeur: Francis Cairns (Edited by), Trevor Luke (Edited by)
Sujet: Anglais
Sous titres: Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, Volume 17, 2017
ISBN-10: 099546121X
Description: Biography, Identity and Religion: Federicomaria Muccioli gives a useful brief history of divinisation in biographical writing and discusses Plutarch’s depiction of ruler cult in these terms; Daniel Harris-McCoy deals with accounts of dreams in biographical works and their influence on Artemidorus; Jennifer Rea compares the ways in which women are biographized, the early Christian martyr St. Perpetua, and the twentieth-century Christa McAuliffe, who lost her life in the Challenger disaster; Matthew Ferguson considers eschatological elements in the Alexander Romance, a late-antique highly fictionalized version of the life of Alexander the Great.

Greek Lives under Roman rule: Alexei Zadorojnyi identifies the way in which very highly condensed ‘Lives’, for which he uses the term ‘biographical synecdoche’, serve interesting functions within biographical works; Andrew Scott writes about the tensions which arise in Cassius Dio from the fact that he was sometimes a participant in the history he relates; Svetla Slaveva-Griffin is also interested in the relation between biography and real life, and looks in great detail at how this is worked through in the tradition of NeoPlatonic biography.
Pays/Région de fabrication: GB
Série: ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sujet: Ancient History, History
Auteur: Francis Cairns
Année de publication: 2018

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