Fame and infamy [electronic resource] : essays on characterization in Greek and Roman biography and historiography / edited by Rhiannon Ash, Judith Mossman, and Frances B. Titchener.
Ash, Rhiannon, editor.; Mossman, Judith, editor.; Titchener, Frances B., 1954- editor.
2015
D56 .F364 2015eb
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Fame and infamy [electronic resource] : essays on characterization in Greek and Roman biography and historiography / edited by Rhiannon Ash, Judith Mossman, and Frances B. Titchener.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191799174 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199662326
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xx, 424 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199662326 doi
Call Number
D56 .F364 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
930.072
Summary
This collection of 24 new essays by Classical scholars on Greek and Roman historiography and biography considers from a fresh perspective the central question of how characterisation evolves in these two major Classical genres. The volume is wide-reaching, both in the time-periods and authors considered, ranging from Herodotus to Cassius Dio, and from Cicero to Suetonius and beyond. The contributors offer close readings of individual texts and overarching engagement with questions of how and why characterisation in the ancient world develops as it does.
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This collection of 24 new essays by Classical scholars on Greek and Roman historiography and biography considers from a fresh perspective the central question of how characterisation evolves in these two major Classical genres. The volume is wide-reaching, both in the time-periods and authors considered, ranging from Herodotus to Cassius Dio, and from Cicero to Suetonius and beyond. The contributors offer close readings of individual texts and overarching engagement with questions of how and why characterisation in the ancient world develops as it does.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Ash, Rhiannon, editor.
Mossman, Judith, editor.
Titchener, Frances B., 1954- editor.
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Basanos kai paidia : image, characterization, and individuation in sympotic literature / David Gribble
Characterization in Herodotus / Emily Baragwanath
Putting up pyramids, characterizing kings / Katherine Clarke
Herodotus on being 'good' : characterization and explanation / Mathieu de Bakker
'The medium is the message' : Herodotus and his logoi / Carolyn Dewald
Plutarch, Herodotus, and the historian's character / John Marincola
Self-characterization and political thought in Xenophon's anabasis / Tim Rood
Implied characterization and the meaning of history in Xenophon's hellenica / Michael A. Flower
Aspect and subordination in Plutarchan narrative / Timothy E. Duff
Dressed for success? Clothing in Plutarch's demetrius / Judith Mossman
'The love of noble deeds' : Plutarch's portrait of Aratus of Sicyon / Philip Stadter
Plutarch's numa and the rhetoric of aetiology / Matthew Fox
Plutarch and Dio on Cicero at the trial of Milo / Kynn Fotheringham
The rapture and the sorrow : characterization in Sulla's memoirs / Harriet I. Flower
Characterizing Augustus / Mark Toher
Teachers and students in Roman Athens / Ewen Bowie
Tacitus and Germanicus : monuments and models / A.J. Woodman
At the end of the rainbow : Nero and Dido's gold (Tacitus annals 16.1-3) / Rhiannon Ash
Colour in Suetonius' lives of the Caesars / Alexei V. Zadorojnyi
Bigger from a distance : Appian on Antiochus 'the great' / Luke Pitcher
Three readings of character in the periochae of Livy / D.S. Levene
From Jerusalem to the ends of the earth : the meaning of Paul's two names at Acts 13.9 / Jonathan Williams
Pagan and Christian sex lives in the Roman Empire / Simon Swain
Not the whole story? : moralizing biography and Imitatio Christi / Teresa Morgan.

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