The art of biography in antiquity

  • a book written with deep love and learning, warmly familiar with the ancient biographers and using the secondary literature to enrich a reading of their art, without weighing it down with detailed debate or too-lengthy footnotes.
  • Perhaps surprisingly, it is not political biography or the lives of poets that provide the main artery of ancient biography, but various kinds of philosophical, spiritual and ethical lives. Applying a consistent biographical reading to a representative set of surviving texts, this book opens up the manifold but often neglected art of biography.
  • Greek and Roman biography embraces much more than Plutarch, Suetonius and their lost Hellenistic antecedents.
  • The Art of Biography in Antiquity - Half title page; Tomas Hägg, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway; Prepared for publication by Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford; Book: The Art of Biography in Antiquity Published online: 05 August 2012 Print publication: 05 April 2012, pp i-ii; Chapter; Get access.

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    Greek and Roman biography embraces much more than Plutarch, Suetonius and their lost Hellenistic antecedents. In this book Professor Hägg explores the whole range and diversity of ancient biography, from its Socratic beginnings to the Christian acquisition of the form in late antiquity.

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      Greek and Roman biography embraces much more than Plutarch, Suetonius and their lost Hellenistic antecedents. In this book Professor Hägg explores the whole range and diversity of ancient.

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    Prolegomena on biography modern and ancient; Tomas Hägg, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway; Prepared for publication by Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford; Book: The Art of Biography in Antiquity Published online: 05 August 2012 Print publication: 05 April 2012, pp 1-9; Chapter; Get access.
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    Xenophon accordingly provides three different literary models for future life-writers to merge and develop. Now, interest in the character, acts, and lifespan of an important individual was of.

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  • Greek and Roman biography embraces much more than Plutarch, Suetonius and their lost Hellenistic antecedents. In this book Professor Hägg explores the whole range and diversity of ancient biography, from its Socratic beginnings to the Christian acquisition of the form in late antiquity.

  • The Art of Biography in Antiquity - The Art of Biography in ... 978-1-107-01669-9 - The Art of Biography in Antiquity Tomas Hägg Frontmatter More information Preface Thisbookisnotahistoryofthe‘biographicalgenre’inantiquity;itisabout the art of biography as it was practised by a number of Greek and Roman creative writers from about 400 bc to about ad 300. Interpretation of the.
  • The Art of Biography in Antiquity Greek and Roman biography embraces much more than Plutarch, Suetonius and their lost Hellenistic antecedents. In this book Professor Hägg explores the whole range and diversity of ancient biography, from its Socratic beginnings to the Christian acquisition of the form in late antiquity.
  • The Art of Biography in Antiquity by Tomas Hägg - Goodreads Adolf von Harnack 1.1 glimpses of a prehistory The single most important force for the emergence of Greek biography in the fourth century BC, it has been convincingly argued, was the personal and historical impact of the figure of Socrates, as reconstructed or invented by the Socratic writers.1 But the one individual writer -- the creative mind.
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    Prolegomena on biography modern and ancient; Tomas Hägg, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway; Prepared for publication by Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford; Book: The Art of Biography in Antiquity Published online: 05 August Print publication: 05 April , pp ; Chapter; Get access.

    THE ART OF BIOGRAPHY IN ANTIQUITY

    Greek and Roman biography embraces much more than Plutarch, Suetonius and their lost Hellenistic antecedents. In this book Professor Hägg explores the whole range and diversity of ancient.

    The Art of Biography in Antiquity : A Review - SAGE Journals

    Xenophon accordingly provides three different literary models for future life-writers to merge and develop. Now, interest in the character, acts, and lifespan of an important individual was of.