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Titre(s) : Writing biography in Greece and Rome [Texte imprimé] : narrative technique and fictionalization / edited by Koen De Temmerman and Kristoffel Demoen
Publication : Cambridge (GB) : Cambridge University Press, 2016
Description matérielle : xiii, 354 pages ; 24 cm
Comprend : Part I. Ancient biography revisited. 1. Ancient biography and formalities of fiction
/ Koen De Temmerman ; 2. Civic and subversive biography in antiquity / David Konstan
and Robyn Walsh ; Part II. Individual biographies. 3. Life of Aesop: fictional biography
as popular literature? / Grammatiki A. Karla ; 4. Parallel narratives and possible
worlds in Plutarch's Life of Artaxerxes / Eran Almagor ; 5. Lucian's Life of Demonax:
the Socratic paradigm, individuality, and personality / Mark Beck ; 6. The Apologia
as a mise-en-abyme in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana / Patrick Robiano
; 7. The emended monk: the Greek translation of Jerome's Vita Malchi / Christa Gray
; 8. The divided cloak as redemptio militiae: Biblical stylization and hagiographical
intertextuality in Sulpicius Severus' Vita Martini / Danny Praet ; Part III. Collective
biographies. 9. Mirroring virtues in Plutarch's Lives of Agis, Cleomenes and Gracchi
/ Maarten De Pourcq and Geert Roskam ; 10. Dying philosophers in ancient biography:
Zeno the Stoic and Epicurus / Eleni Kechagia ; 11. Never say die! Assassinating emperors
in Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars / Rhiannon Ash ; 12. Poetry and fiction in Suetonius'
Illustrious Men / Tristan Power ; 13. Qui vitas aliorum scribere orditur: narratological
implications of fictional authors in the Historia Augusta / Diederik Burgersdijk
; Part IV. Biographical modes of discourse. 14. Chion of Heraclea: letters and the
life of a tyrannicide / John Paul Christy ; 15. Brief encounter: timing and biographical
representation in the Ps.-Hippocratic letters / Ranja Knöbl ; 16. A shaggy thigh
story: Kalasiris on the Life of Homer (Heliodorus 3.14) / Luke V. Pitcher.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-342) and indexes
"Ancient biography is now a well-established and popular field of study among classicists
as well as many scholars of literature and history more generally. In particular biographies
offer important insights into the dynamics underlying ancient performance of the self
and social behaviour, issues currently of crucial importance in classical studies.
They also raise complex issues of narrativity and fictionalization. This volume examines
a range of ancient texts which are or purport to be biographical and explores how
formal narrative categories such as time, space and character are constructed and
how they address (highlight, question, thematize, underscore or problematize) the
borderline between historicity and fictionality. In doing so, it makes a major contribution
not only to the study of ancient biographical writing but also to broader narratological
approaches to ancient texts"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : De Temmerman, Koen (1979-....). Éditeur scientifique
Demoen, Kristoffel. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Biographie antique
Rhétorique antique
Rome
Grèce -- Jusqu'à 395
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107129122. - ISBN 1107129125
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45083009n
Notice n° :
FRBNF45083009
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)