The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 December 2020
- ISBN 9780198703013
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages800 pages
- Size 254x180x50 mm
- Weight 1544 g
- Language English 89
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Short description:
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.
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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.
This comprehensive volume offers an excellent background survey for all discussions of teh genre of the canonical Gospels and encourages a fresh appraisal of the often neglected late ancient Christian biographical tradition which, in all its variety has much to offer.
Table of Contents:
Part I. Introduction
Writing (About) Ancient Lives: Scholarship, Definitions and Concepts
What are Bioi/Vitae? Generic Self-Consciousness in Ancient Biography
Individual and Collected Lives in Antiquity
Popular Biography
Jewish Biography
Christian Biography
Part II. Reading Biographies
Fifth-Century Preliminaries
Isocrates' Evagoras: The Educational Ends of the 'First' Biography in Classical Greece
Xenophon of Athens
Ex uno fonte multi rivuli? Unity and Multiplicity in Hellenistic Biography
Nepos' Life of Atticus, Nicolaus' Life of Caesar and the Genre of Political Biography in the Age of Augustus
Biography and Praise in Trajanic Rome: Tacitus' Agricola and Pliny's Panegyricus
Plutarch's Parallel Lives
Plutarch: Lives of the Caesars (Galba, Otho) and Lives of Aratus and Artaxerxes
Types of Life-Writing in Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars and Illustrious Men
The Alexander Romance
Lucian: Satirical and Idealising Lives (Peregrinus, Alexander, Demonax)
The Biographer as Literary Artist: Form and Content in Philostratus' Apollonius
Diogenes Laertius and Philosophical Lives
A Bishop's Biography: Eusebius of Caesarea and The Life of Constantine
Augustine's Confessions as Autobiography
Solitude and Biography in Jerome's Life of Hilarion
Part III. Tracing Biographees
: Lives of Homer
Ancient Biographies of Statesmen
Sophists
Philosophers and their Neoplatonic Lives: Problemsand Paradigms
Holy Men: Lives of Miracle Workers, Apostles, and Saints
Martyrs and Life-Writing in Late Antiquity
Monastic Lives
Part IV. Cultures
Syriac Biography
Coptic Life Stories
Armenian Biography in Late Antiquity
Arabic Biography
Part V. Media
Biographical Monuments: Displaying Selves and Lives in Ancient Egypt
Engraved Lives: Biographical Material in Epigraphical Sources
Depicted Lives: The Role of The Visual Arts in Sophistic Self-Representation
Triumphant Lives: Portraits, Statues and Triumphal Arches in Imperial Rome
Part VI. Reception
Byzantine Biography
Roman Biography in the Medieval West: Did Classical Texts Facilitate Complex Literary Portraits in the Middle Ages?
Ancient Biography and the Italian Renaissance: Old Models and New Developments
Ancient Biography in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
After-Lives: Biographical Receptions of Greek and Roman Poets in the Twentieth Century
