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| Zusammenfassung: | 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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| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 8: Isocrates' Evagoras: The Educational Ends of the 'First' Biography in Classical Greece -- The Rhetorical Tradition of Praise -- The Poetic Tradition of Praise -- Biography and the Rhetoric of Praise -- Biography and Education -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 9: Xenophon of Athens -- The Question of Genre: The Case for Inclusivity -- The Importance of Socrates -- (Auto)Biography and the Anabasis -- Birth-to-Death Life-Writing: More Genre-Bending -- Many Socrateses or One? -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 10: Ex Uno Fonte Multi Rivuli? Unity and Multiplicity in Hellenistic Biography -- Unity and Multipplicity in Hellenistic Biography -- 'Periegetic Biography': Neanthes of Cyzicus vs. Antigonus of Carystus -- 'Epicurean' Biography -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 11: Nepos' Life Atticus, icolaus' Life of Caesar, and the Genre of Political lBiography in the age of Augustus -- Reading Atticus and Caesar as Specimens of a Shared Genre -- Caesar: Biography vs. History -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 12: Biography and Praise in Trajanic Rome: Tacitus' Agricola and Pliny's Panegyricus -- The Agricola in the Biographical Tradition: Encomium and Synchrisis -- Dangerous Lives? -- Writing Down Trajan: Biographical Aspects in the Panegyricus -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 13: Plutarch's Parallel Lives -- Parallelism and Comparison -- Death Scenes -- Source Material, Composition, and Narrative Technique -- Moralism, Characterization, and Readership -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 14: Plutarch: Lives of the Caesars (Galba, Otho) and Lives of Aratus and Artaxerxes -- The Riddle of the Artaxerxes: Composition, Subject, and Style -- The Life of Aratus: Composition, Subject, and Style | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Lives of the Caesars (Galba, Otho): Composition, Subject, and Style -- Further Reading -- Chapter 15: Types of Life-Writing in Suetoninus' Lives of the Caesars and Illustrious men -- Categories vs. Chronology: Suetonius' Literray Technique and the Biographical Tradition -- Caesars, Poets, Grammarians: Life-Writing and Lifestyle in Second-Century Rome -- Evolutionary Models and their Limitations: The Lives as Part of Suetonius' Oeuvre -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 16: The Alexander Romance -- A Composite and Multifaceted Work -- Characterizing Strategies -- THe Story of an Outstanding Hero -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 17: Lucian: Satirical and Idealizing Lives (Peregrinus, Alexander, Demonax) -- On the Death of Peregrinus -- Alexander or the False Prophet -- The Life of Demonax -- The Lost Sostratus -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 18: The Biographer as Literary Artist: Form and Content in Philostratus' Apollonius -- Narratorial Self-Presentation -- THe Master's Teachings -- TheNarrative Setting: Greek Antiquarianism -- Eastern Exoticism -- Roman History and Politics -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 19: Diogenes Laertius and Philosophical LIves -- A Genealogy of Philosophy -- Lives of Philosophers -- Two Lives: Aristotle and Parmenides -- The Life of Philosophy -- Afterlives and Audience -- Further Reading -- Chapter 20: A Bishop's Biography: Eusebius of Caesarea and the Life of Constantine -- The History of the Life -- Bishops in the History -- The Emperor as Bishop -- Emperors as Bishops (and Bishops as Bishops) -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 21: Augustine's Confessions as autobiography -- About Me -- The Story of Us -- I'm Still Here -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 22: Solitude and Biography in Jerome's Life of Hilarion | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Solitude in Graeco-Roman Biography -- Solitude in Early Christian Biography -- Jerome's Biographical Writing -- The Preface -- EarlyLife -- Flight -- Landscape -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Part III: Tracing Biographees -- Chapter 23: Lives of Homer -- The Making of Homer Before the Lives -- The Lives of Homer -- Homer's Name -- Homer's Place of Birth -- Parents and Genealogies -- Date -- Portraits -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 24: Ancient Biographies of Statesmen -- Defining Ancient Biographies of Statesmen -- The Development of Political Biography -- The Aim of Political Biography Inculcating Morals -- Encomium and Political Biography -- Serialization and Exemplariness -- Political Biography as a Separate Genre? -- The Inclusion of Personal Details -- Political Biography and Fiction -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 25: Sophists -- Why Write Biographies of Imperial Sophists? -- Intellectual Historiography and Self-Definition -- Sophists at Work -- Sophists and Power -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 26: Philosophers and Their Neoplatonic Lives: Problems and Paradigms -- Lives of Pythagoras: Porphyry's Life of Pythagoras and Iamblichus' On the Pythagorean Life -- Porphyry's Life of Plotinus -- Marinus' Proclus, or On Happiness -- Serial Biographies: Eunapius' Lives of Philosophers and Sophists and Damascius' Philosophical History/Life of Isidore -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 27: Holy Men: Lives of Miracle Workers, Apostles, and Saints -- Terminology of the Holy Man -- The Subjects of Hagiographical Discourse -- The Apostles -- Lives, Biography, and Hagiography -- Formal Characteristics -- Stylization -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 28: Martyrs and Life-Writing in Late Antiquity -- Martyr Accounts and Scholarship -- LIves -- Love -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 29: Monastic Lives -- The Life of Antony -- The Lives of Pachomius -- Theodoret on the Monks of Syria -- The Dialogues of Gregory the Great -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Part IV: Cultures -- Chapter 30: Syriac Biography -- Hagiography -- Biographies of Non-Religious Heroes -- Fictional Autobiographies -- Biblical Figures -- Lives of the Church Fathers -- Local Heroes -- Competitive Biographies -- Ascetic and Monastic Lives -- Biographies of Women -- Collective Biographies and History -- Reading Biographies -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 31: Coptic LIfe Stories -- Monastic Life Stories -- Biographies of Bishops -- Martyrs and Their Stories -- 'The Biographic': Fragments of Life-Writing -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 32: Armenian Biography in Late Antiquity -- Introduction -- Heroic Oral Tales of Prowess and Gallantry -- The Transition to Literate Biographical Forms: Koriwn's Life of Maštoc' -- The Composite Biographical Treatment of St Gregory the Illuminator -- Lazar "'arpec'i's History and its Three Biographical Sketches -- Biographical Treatment of St Hrip'sime in a Festal Hymn -- Traditions of Oral Myth Historicized -- The Martyrology of Hamazasp and Sahak Acruni under the 'Abbasids -- Autobiography -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 33: Arabic Biography -- Genealogy -- Prophetic Biography: Sira -- Islamic Tradition: Biography Related to Hadith and Biographies of Transmitters -- Biographical Dictionaries -- Biographical Dictionaries of Professionals -- Biographical Dictionaries of Local Orientation -- Later Developments: Variegated Biographical Dictionaries -- Individual Biography -- Christian and Islamic Hagiography -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Part V: Media -- Chapter 34: Biographical Monuments: DIsplaying Selves and Lives in Ancient Egypts -- Definition -- Scholarly Approaches | |
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| contents | Cover -- The Oxford Handbook of ANCIENT BIOGRAPHY -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Prefae -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Writing (About) Ancient Lives: Scholarship, Definitions, and Concepts -- Modern Criticism -- defining Biography -- 'Origins' -- Rationale Behind the Book -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 2: What are BIOI/VITAE? Generic Self-Consciousness in Ancient Biography -- What is the Ancient Understanding of Genre -- Genre Hierarchy and Relationships -- Genre Overlap and Differentiation: Biography and History -- Ancient Biographers on the Biography Tradition -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3: Individual and Collected lives in Antiquity -- Herodotus' 'Lives' of Croesus and Cyrus -- Cornelius Nepos' On Foreign Generals -- Plutarch's Parallel Lives -- Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4: Popular Biography -- The Texts and Their Characteristics -- Early Traditions about the Seven Sages -- The Life of Aesop -- Secundus, the Alexander Roance, and the Homeric Lives -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5: Jewish Biography -- Some Biographical Elements in the Septuagint -- Jason of Cyrene and the Second Boo of Maccabees -- Philo's Biographical Works -- THe Autobiography of Kind Herod -- THe Vita of Josephus -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 6: Christian Biography -- Orthodox Narrative and the Gospels -- Apocrypha -- Saints' Lives -- Biography and the Organization of Knowledge -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Part II: Reading Biographies -- Chapter 7: Fifth-Century Preliminaries -- Stesimbrotus of Thasos -- Ion of Chios -- Proto-biography and Historiography -- Eastern Preliminaries? -- Conclusion -- Further Reading Chapter 8: Isocrates' Evagoras: The Educational Ends of the 'First' Biography in Classical Greece -- The Rhetorical Tradition of Praise -- The Poetic Tradition of Praise -- Biography and the Rhetoric of Praise -- Biography and Education -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 9: Xenophon of Athens -- The Question of Genre: The Case for Inclusivity -- The Importance of Socrates -- (Auto)Biography and the Anabasis -- Birth-to-Death Life-Writing: More Genre-Bending -- Many Socrateses or One? -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 10: Ex Uno Fonte Multi Rivuli? Unity and Multiplicity in Hellenistic Biography -- Unity and Multipplicity in Hellenistic Biography -- 'Periegetic Biography': Neanthes of Cyzicus vs. Antigonus of Carystus -- 'Epicurean' Biography -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 11: Nepos' Life Atticus, icolaus' Life of Caesar, and the Genre of Political lBiography in the age of Augustus -- Reading Atticus and Caesar as Specimens of a Shared Genre -- Caesar: Biography vs. History -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 12: Biography and Praise in Trajanic Rome: Tacitus' Agricola and Pliny's Panegyricus -- The Agricola in the Biographical Tradition: Encomium and Synchrisis -- Dangerous Lives? -- Writing Down Trajan: Biographical Aspects in the Panegyricus -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 13: Plutarch's Parallel Lives -- Parallelism and Comparison -- Death Scenes -- Source Material, Composition, and Narrative Technique -- Moralism, Characterization, and Readership -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 14: Plutarch: Lives of the Caesars (Galba, Otho) and Lives of Aratus and Artaxerxes -- The Riddle of the Artaxerxes: Composition, Subject, and Style -- The Life of Aratus: Composition, Subject, and Style Lives of the Caesars (Galba, Otho): Composition, Subject, and Style -- Further Reading -- Chapter 15: Types of Life-Writing in Suetoninus' Lives of the Caesars and Illustrious men -- Categories vs. Chronology: Suetonius' Literray Technique and the Biographical Tradition -- Caesars, Poets, Grammarians: Life-Writing and Lifestyle in Second-Century Rome -- Evolutionary Models and their Limitations: The Lives as Part of Suetonius' Oeuvre -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 16: The Alexander Romance -- A Composite and Multifaceted Work -- Characterizing Strategies -- THe Story of an Outstanding Hero -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 17: Lucian: Satirical and Idealizing Lives (Peregrinus, Alexander, Demonax) -- On the Death of Peregrinus -- Alexander or the False Prophet -- The Life of Demonax -- The Lost Sostratus -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 18: The Biographer as Literary Artist: Form and Content in Philostratus' Apollonius -- Narratorial Self-Presentation -- THe Master's Teachings -- TheNarrative Setting: Greek Antiquarianism -- Eastern Exoticism -- Roman History and Politics -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 19: Diogenes Laertius and Philosophical LIves -- A Genealogy of Philosophy -- Lives of Philosophers -- Two Lives: Aristotle and Parmenides -- The Life of Philosophy -- Afterlives and Audience -- Further Reading -- Chapter 20: A Bishop's Biography: Eusebius of Caesarea and the Life of Constantine -- The History of the Life -- Bishops in the History -- The Emperor as Bishop -- Emperors as Bishops (and Bishops as Bishops) -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 21: Augustine's Confessions as autobiography -- About Me -- The Story of Us -- I'm Still Here -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 22: Solitude and Biography in Jerome's Life of Hilarion Solitude in Graeco-Roman Biography -- Solitude in Early Christian Biography -- Jerome's Biographical Writing -- The Preface -- EarlyLife -- Flight -- Landscape -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Part III: Tracing Biographees -- Chapter 23: Lives of Homer -- The Making of Homer Before the Lives -- The Lives of Homer -- Homer's Name -- Homer's Place of Birth -- Parents and Genealogies -- Date -- Portraits -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 24: Ancient Biographies of Statesmen -- Defining Ancient Biographies of Statesmen -- The Development of Political Biography -- The Aim of Political Biography Inculcating Morals -- Encomium and Political Biography -- Serialization and Exemplariness -- Political Biography as a Separate Genre? -- The Inclusion of Personal Details -- Political Biography and Fiction -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 25: Sophists -- Why Write Biographies of Imperial Sophists? -- Intellectual Historiography and Self-Definition -- Sophists at Work -- Sophists and Power -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 26: Philosophers and Their Neoplatonic Lives: Problems and Paradigms -- Lives of Pythagoras: Porphyry's Life of Pythagoras and Iamblichus' On the Pythagorean Life -- Porphyry's Life of Plotinus -- Marinus' Proclus, or On Happiness -- Serial Biographies: Eunapius' Lives of Philosophers and Sophists and Damascius' Philosophical History/Life of Isidore -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 27: Holy Men: Lives of Miracle Workers, Apostles, and Saints -- Terminology of the Holy Man -- The Subjects of Hagiographical Discourse -- The Apostles -- Lives, Biography, and Hagiography -- Formal Characteristics -- Stylization -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 28: Martyrs and Life-Writing in Late Antiquity -- Martyr Accounts and Scholarship -- LIves -- Love -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements Chapter 29: Monastic Lives -- The Life of Antony -- The Lives of Pachomius -- Theodoret on the Monks of Syria -- The Dialogues of Gregory the Great -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Part IV: Cultures -- Chapter 30: Syriac Biography -- Hagiography -- Biographies of Non-Religious Heroes -- Fictional Autobiographies -- Biblical Figures -- Lives of the Church Fathers -- Local Heroes -- Competitive Biographies -- Ascetic and Monastic Lives -- Biographies of Women -- Collective Biographies and History -- Reading Biographies -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 31: Coptic LIfe Stories -- Monastic Life Stories -- Biographies of Bishops -- Martyrs and Their Stories -- 'The Biographic': Fragments of Life-Writing -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 32: Armenian Biography in Late Antiquity -- Introduction -- Heroic Oral Tales of Prowess and Gallantry -- The Transition to Literate Biographical Forms: Koriwn's Life of Maštoc' -- The Composite Biographical Treatment of St Gregory the Illuminator -- Lazar "'arpec'i's History and its Three Biographical Sketches -- Biographical Treatment of St Hrip'sime in a Festal Hymn -- Traditions of Oral Myth Historicized -- The Martyrology of Hamazasp and Sahak Acruni under the 'Abbasids -- Autobiography -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 33: Arabic Biography -- Genealogy -- Prophetic Biography: Sira -- Islamic Tradition: Biography Related to Hadith and Biographies of Transmitters -- Biographical Dictionaries -- Biographical Dictionaries of Professionals -- Biographical Dictionaries of Local Orientation -- Later Developments: Variegated Biographical Dictionaries -- Individual Biography -- Christian and Islamic Hagiography -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Part V: Media -- Chapter 34: Biographical Monuments: DIsplaying Selves and Lives in Ancient Egypts -- Definition -- Scholarly Approaches Implications of Context, from Body to Landscape |
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| spelling | Temmerman, Koen de 1979- Verfasser (DE-588)1048288188 aut The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography Oxford Oxford University Press, Incorporated 2021 ©2020 1 Online-Ressource (793 Seiten) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Oxford Handbooks Ser Cover -- The Oxford Handbook of ANCIENT BIOGRAPHY -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Prefae -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Writing (About) Ancient Lives: Scholarship, Definitions, and Concepts -- Modern Criticism -- defining Biography -- 'Origins' -- Rationale Behind the Book -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 2: What are BIOI/VITAE? Generic Self-Consciousness in Ancient Biography -- What is the Ancient Understanding of Genre -- Genre Hierarchy and Relationships -- Genre Overlap and Differentiation: Biography and History -- Ancient Biographers on the Biography Tradition -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3: Individual and Collected lives in Antiquity -- Herodotus' 'Lives' of Croesus and Cyrus -- Cornelius Nepos' On Foreign Generals -- Plutarch's Parallel Lives -- Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4: Popular Biography -- The Texts and Their Characteristics -- Early Traditions about the Seven Sages -- The Life of Aesop -- Secundus, the Alexander Roance, and the Homeric Lives -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5: Jewish Biography -- Some Biographical Elements in the Septuagint -- Jason of Cyrene and the Second Boo of Maccabees -- Philo's Biographical Works -- THe Autobiography of Kind Herod -- THe Vita of Josephus -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 6: Christian Biography -- Orthodox Narrative and the Gospels -- Apocrypha -- Saints' Lives -- Biography and the Organization of Knowledge -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Part II: Reading Biographies -- Chapter 7: Fifth-Century Preliminaries -- Stesimbrotus of Thasos -- Ion of Chios -- Proto-biography and Historiography -- Eastern Preliminaries? -- Conclusion -- Further Reading Chapter 8: Isocrates' Evagoras: The Educational Ends of the 'First' Biography in Classical Greece -- The Rhetorical Tradition of Praise -- The Poetic Tradition of Praise -- Biography and the Rhetoric of Praise -- Biography and Education -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 9: Xenophon of Athens -- The Question of Genre: The Case for Inclusivity -- The Importance of Socrates -- (Auto)Biography and the Anabasis -- Birth-to-Death Life-Writing: More Genre-Bending -- Many Socrateses or One? -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 10: Ex Uno Fonte Multi Rivuli? Unity and Multiplicity in Hellenistic Biography -- Unity and Multipplicity in Hellenistic Biography -- 'Periegetic Biography': Neanthes of Cyzicus vs. Antigonus of Carystus -- 'Epicurean' Biography -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 11: Nepos' Life Atticus, icolaus' Life of Caesar, and the Genre of Political lBiography in the age of Augustus -- Reading Atticus and Caesar as Specimens of a Shared Genre -- Caesar: Biography vs. History -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 12: Biography and Praise in Trajanic Rome: Tacitus' Agricola and Pliny's Panegyricus -- The Agricola in the Biographical Tradition: Encomium and Synchrisis -- Dangerous Lives? -- Writing Down Trajan: Biographical Aspects in the Panegyricus -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 13: Plutarch's Parallel Lives -- Parallelism and Comparison -- Death Scenes -- Source Material, Composition, and Narrative Technique -- Moralism, Characterization, and Readership -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 14: Plutarch: Lives of the Caesars (Galba, Otho) and Lives of Aratus and Artaxerxes -- The Riddle of the Artaxerxes: Composition, Subject, and Style -- The Life of Aratus: Composition, Subject, and Style Lives of the Caesars (Galba, Otho): Composition, Subject, and Style -- Further Reading -- Chapter 15: Types of Life-Writing in Suetoninus' Lives of the Caesars and Illustrious men -- Categories vs. Chronology: Suetonius' Literray Technique and the Biographical Tradition -- Caesars, Poets, Grammarians: Life-Writing and Lifestyle in Second-Century Rome -- Evolutionary Models and their Limitations: The Lives as Part of Suetonius' Oeuvre -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 16: The Alexander Romance -- A Composite and Multifaceted Work -- Characterizing Strategies -- THe Story of an Outstanding Hero -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 17: Lucian: Satirical and Idealizing Lives (Peregrinus, Alexander, Demonax) -- On the Death of Peregrinus -- Alexander or the False Prophet -- The Life of Demonax -- The Lost Sostratus -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 18: The Biographer as Literary Artist: Form and Content in Philostratus' Apollonius -- Narratorial Self-Presentation -- THe Master's Teachings -- TheNarrative Setting: Greek Antiquarianism -- Eastern Exoticism -- Roman History and Politics -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 19: Diogenes Laertius and Philosophical LIves -- A Genealogy of Philosophy -- Lives of Philosophers -- Two Lives: Aristotle and Parmenides -- The Life of Philosophy -- Afterlives and Audience -- Further Reading -- Chapter 20: A Bishop's Biography: Eusebius of Caesarea and the Life of Constantine -- The History of the Life -- Bishops in the History -- The Emperor as Bishop -- Emperors as Bishops (and Bishops as Bishops) -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 21: Augustine's Confessions as autobiography -- About Me -- The Story of Us -- I'm Still Here -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 22: Solitude and Biography in Jerome's Life of Hilarion Solitude in Graeco-Roman Biography -- Solitude in Early Christian Biography -- Jerome's Biographical Writing -- The Preface -- EarlyLife -- Flight -- Landscape -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Part III: Tracing Biographees -- Chapter 23: Lives of Homer -- The Making of Homer Before the Lives -- The Lives of Homer -- Homer's Name -- Homer's Place of Birth -- Parents and Genealogies -- Date -- Portraits -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 24: Ancient Biographies of Statesmen -- Defining Ancient Biographies of Statesmen -- The Development of Political Biography -- The Aim of Political Biography Inculcating Morals -- Encomium and Political Biography -- Serialization and Exemplariness -- Political Biography as a Separate Genre? -- The Inclusion of Personal Details -- Political Biography and Fiction -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 25: Sophists -- Why Write Biographies of Imperial Sophists? -- Intellectual Historiography and Self-Definition -- Sophists at Work -- Sophists and Power -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 26: Philosophers and Their Neoplatonic Lives: Problems and Paradigms -- Lives of Pythagoras: Porphyry's Life of Pythagoras and Iamblichus' On the Pythagorean Life -- Porphyry's Life of Plotinus -- Marinus' Proclus, or On Happiness -- Serial Biographies: Eunapius' Lives of Philosophers and Sophists and Damascius' Philosophical History/Life of Isidore -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 27: Holy Men: Lives of Miracle Workers, Apostles, and Saints -- Terminology of the Holy Man -- The Subjects of Hagiographical Discourse -- The Apostles -- Lives, Biography, and Hagiography -- Formal Characteristics -- Stylization -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 28: Martyrs and Life-Writing in Late Antiquity -- Martyr Accounts and Scholarship -- LIves -- Love -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements Chapter 29: Monastic Lives -- The Life of Antony -- The Lives of Pachomius -- Theodoret on the Monks of Syria -- The Dialogues of Gregory the Great -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Part IV: Cultures -- Chapter 30: Syriac Biography -- Hagiography -- Biographies of Non-Religious Heroes -- Fictional Autobiographies -- Biblical Figures -- Lives of the Church Fathers -- Local Heroes -- Competitive Biographies -- Ascetic and Monastic Lives -- Biographies of Women -- Collective Biographies and History -- Reading Biographies -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 31: Coptic LIfe Stories -- Monastic Life Stories -- Biographies of Bishops -- Martyrs and Their Stories -- 'The Biographic': Fragments of Life-Writing -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 32: Armenian Biography in Late Antiquity -- Introduction -- Heroic Oral Tales of Prowess and Gallantry -- The Transition to Literate Biographical Forms: Koriwn's Life of Maštoc' -- The Composite Biographical Treatment of St Gregory the Illuminator -- Lazar "'arpec'i's History and its Three Biographical Sketches -- Biographical Treatment of St Hrip'sime in a Festal Hymn -- Traditions of Oral Myth Historicized -- The Martyrology of Hamazasp and Sahak Acruni under the 'Abbasids -- Autobiography -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 33: Arabic Biography -- Genealogy -- Prophetic Biography: Sira -- Islamic Tradition: Biography Related to Hadith and Biographies of Transmitters -- Biographical Dictionaries -- Biographical Dictionaries of Professionals -- Biographical Dictionaries of Local Orientation -- Later Developments: Variegated Biographical Dictionaries -- Individual Biography -- Christian and Islamic Hagiography -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Part V: Media -- Chapter 34: Biographical Monuments: DIsplaying Selves and Lives in Ancient Egypts -- Definition -- Scholarly Approaches Implications of Context, from Body to Landscape This Handbook presents the first wide-ranging survey on biography in Antiquity from its earliest representations to Late Antiquity. 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| spellingShingle | Temmerman, Koen de 1979- The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography Cover -- The Oxford Handbook of ANCIENT BIOGRAPHY -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Prefae -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Writing (About) Ancient Lives: Scholarship, Definitions, and Concepts -- Modern Criticism -- defining Biography -- 'Origins' -- Rationale Behind the Book -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 2: What are BIOI/VITAE? Generic Self-Consciousness in Ancient Biography -- What is the Ancient Understanding of Genre -- Genre Hierarchy and Relationships -- Genre Overlap and Differentiation: Biography and History -- Ancient Biographers on the Biography Tradition -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3: Individual and Collected lives in Antiquity -- Herodotus' 'Lives' of Croesus and Cyrus -- Cornelius Nepos' On Foreign Generals -- Plutarch's Parallel Lives -- Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4: Popular Biography -- The Texts and Their Characteristics -- Early Traditions about the Seven Sages -- The Life of Aesop -- Secundus, the Alexander Roance, and the Homeric Lives -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5: Jewish Biography -- Some Biographical Elements in the Septuagint -- Jason of Cyrene and the Second Boo of Maccabees -- Philo's Biographical Works -- THe Autobiography of Kind Herod -- THe Vita of Josephus -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 6: Christian Biography -- Orthodox Narrative and the Gospels -- Apocrypha -- Saints' Lives -- Biography and the Organization of Knowledge -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Part II: Reading Biographies -- Chapter 7: Fifth-Century Preliminaries -- Stesimbrotus of Thasos -- Ion of Chios -- Proto-biography and Historiography -- Eastern Preliminaries? -- Conclusion -- Further Reading Chapter 8: Isocrates' Evagoras: The Educational Ends of the 'First' Biography in Classical Greece -- The Rhetorical Tradition of Praise -- The Poetic Tradition of Praise -- Biography and the Rhetoric of Praise -- Biography and Education -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 9: Xenophon of Athens -- The Question of Genre: The Case for Inclusivity -- The Importance of Socrates -- (Auto)Biography and the Anabasis -- Birth-to-Death Life-Writing: More Genre-Bending -- Many Socrateses or One? -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 10: Ex Uno Fonte Multi Rivuli? Unity and Multiplicity in Hellenistic Biography -- Unity and Multipplicity in Hellenistic Biography -- 'Periegetic Biography': Neanthes of Cyzicus vs. Antigonus of Carystus -- 'Epicurean' Biography -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 11: Nepos' Life Atticus, icolaus' Life of Caesar, and the Genre of Political lBiography in the age of Augustus -- Reading Atticus and Caesar as Specimens of a Shared Genre -- Caesar: Biography vs. History -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 12: Biography and Praise in Trajanic Rome: Tacitus' Agricola and Pliny's Panegyricus -- The Agricola in the Biographical Tradition: Encomium and Synchrisis -- Dangerous Lives? -- Writing Down Trajan: Biographical Aspects in the Panegyricus -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 13: Plutarch's Parallel Lives -- Parallelism and Comparison -- Death Scenes -- Source Material, Composition, and Narrative Technique -- Moralism, Characterization, and Readership -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 14: Plutarch: Lives of the Caesars (Galba, Otho) and Lives of Aratus and Artaxerxes -- The Riddle of the Artaxerxes: Composition, Subject, and Style -- The Life of Aratus: Composition, Subject, and Style Lives of the Caesars (Galba, Otho): Composition, Subject, and Style -- Further Reading -- Chapter 15: Types of Life-Writing in Suetoninus' Lives of the Caesars and Illustrious men -- Categories vs. Chronology: Suetonius' Literray Technique and the Biographical Tradition -- Caesars, Poets, Grammarians: Life-Writing and Lifestyle in Second-Century Rome -- Evolutionary Models and their Limitations: The Lives as Part of Suetonius' Oeuvre -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 16: The Alexander Romance -- A Composite and Multifaceted Work -- Characterizing Strategies -- THe Story of an Outstanding Hero -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 17: Lucian: Satirical and Idealizing Lives (Peregrinus, Alexander, Demonax) -- On the Death of Peregrinus -- Alexander or the False Prophet -- The Life of Demonax -- The Lost Sostratus -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 18: The Biographer as Literary Artist: Form and Content in Philostratus' Apollonius -- Narratorial Self-Presentation -- THe Master's Teachings -- TheNarrative Setting: Greek Antiquarianism -- Eastern Exoticism -- Roman History and Politics -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 19: Diogenes Laertius and Philosophical LIves -- A Genealogy of Philosophy -- Lives of Philosophers -- Two Lives: Aristotle and Parmenides -- The Life of Philosophy -- Afterlives and Audience -- Further Reading -- Chapter 20: A Bishop's Biography: Eusebius of Caesarea and the Life of Constantine -- The History of the Life -- Bishops in the History -- The Emperor as Bishop -- Emperors as Bishops (and Bishops as Bishops) -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 21: Augustine's Confessions as autobiography -- About Me -- The Story of Us -- I'm Still Here -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 22: Solitude and Biography in Jerome's Life of Hilarion Solitude in Graeco-Roman Biography -- Solitude in Early Christian Biography -- Jerome's Biographical Writing -- The Preface -- EarlyLife -- Flight -- Landscape -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Part III: Tracing Biographees -- Chapter 23: Lives of Homer -- The Making of Homer Before the Lives -- The Lives of Homer -- Homer's Name -- Homer's Place of Birth -- Parents and Genealogies -- Date -- Portraits -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 24: Ancient Biographies of Statesmen -- Defining Ancient Biographies of Statesmen -- The Development of Political Biography -- The Aim of Political Biography Inculcating Morals -- Encomium and Political Biography -- Serialization and Exemplariness -- Political Biography as a Separate Genre? -- The Inclusion of Personal Details -- Political Biography and Fiction -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 25: Sophists -- Why Write Biographies of Imperial Sophists? -- Intellectual Historiography and Self-Definition -- Sophists at Work -- Sophists and Power -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 26: Philosophers and Their Neoplatonic Lives: Problems and Paradigms -- Lives of Pythagoras: Porphyry's Life of Pythagoras and Iamblichus' On the Pythagorean Life -- Porphyry's Life of Plotinus -- Marinus' Proclus, or On Happiness -- Serial Biographies: Eunapius' Lives of Philosophers and Sophists and Damascius' Philosophical History/Life of Isidore -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 27: Holy Men: Lives of Miracle Workers, Apostles, and Saints -- Terminology of the Holy Man -- The Subjects of Hagiographical Discourse -- The Apostles -- Lives, Biography, and Hagiography -- Formal Characteristics -- Stylization -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 28: Martyrs and Life-Writing in Late Antiquity -- Martyr Accounts and Scholarship -- LIves -- Love -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements Chapter 29: Monastic Lives -- The Life of Antony -- The Lives of Pachomius -- Theodoret on the Monks of Syria -- The Dialogues of Gregory the Great -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Part IV: Cultures -- Chapter 30: Syriac Biography -- Hagiography -- Biographies of Non-Religious Heroes -- Fictional Autobiographies -- Biblical Figures -- Lives of the Church Fathers -- Local Heroes -- Competitive Biographies -- Ascetic and Monastic Lives -- Biographies of Women -- Collective Biographies and History -- Reading Biographies -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 31: Coptic LIfe Stories -- Monastic Life Stories -- Biographies of Bishops -- Martyrs and Their Stories -- 'The Biographic': Fragments of Life-Writing -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 32: Armenian Biography in Late Antiquity -- Introduction -- Heroic Oral Tales of Prowess and Gallantry -- The Transition to Literate Biographical Forms: Koriwn's Life of Maštoc' -- The Composite Biographical Treatment of St Gregory the Illuminator -- Lazar "'arpec'i's History and its Three Biographical Sketches -- Biographical Treatment of St Hrip'sime in a Festal Hymn -- Traditions of Oral Myth Historicized -- The Martyrology of Hamazasp and Sahak Acruni under the 'Abbasids -- Autobiography -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 33: Arabic Biography -- Genealogy -- Prophetic Biography: Sira -- Islamic Tradition: Biography Related to Hadith and Biographies of Transmitters -- Biographical Dictionaries -- Biographical Dictionaries of Professionals -- Biographical Dictionaries of Local Orientation -- Later Developments: Variegated Biographical Dictionaries -- Individual Biography -- Christian and Islamic Hagiography -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Part V: Media -- Chapter 34: Biographical Monuments: DIsplaying Selves and Lives in Ancient Egypts -- Definition -- Scholarly Approaches Implications of Context, from Body to Landscape Classical biography Classical biography-History and criticism Biography as a literary form-History Antike (DE-588)4068754-5 gnd Biografische Literatur (DE-588)4312083-0 gnd |
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