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The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography: Oxford Handbooks

Editat de Koen De Temmerman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 dec 2020
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198703013
ISBN-10: 0198703015
Pagini: 800
Dimensiuni: 180 x 254 x 50 mm
Greutate: 1.58 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Handbooks

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

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.
This is a fine work and will be the standard point of reference on ancient 'biography' for decades.

Notă biografică

Koen De Temmerman is a Professor of Classics and European Literature at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the author of Crafting Characters: Heroes and Heroines in the Ancient Greek Novel (OUP 2014) and the co-editor of Writing Biography in Greece and Rome: Narrative Technique and Fictionalization (Cambridge 2016, with K. Demoen) and Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature (Leiden 2018, with E. van Emde Boas).

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