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Publisher
Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd, Cairns Publications, Limited, Francis
Language
English
Pages
310

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Subjects
Classical biography, Congresses, Biography, Classical literature, Biography as a literary form, Classical literature, history and criticism
Times
To 500
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Ancient biography: identity through Lives
2018, Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd, Cairns Publications, Limited, Francis
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Table of Contents

Introduction / Francis Cairnes, Trevor Luke
Pindar, 'Lover of Athens': Dithyramb fr.76 and the biographical tradition / Flore Kimmel-Clauzet
Exemplarity and identity in Cornelius Nepos' on foreign generals / Rex Stem
Reading ethnic identity in the Historia Augusta / David Rohrbacher
Polyaenus and Polycrates' rise to power / Marcaline Boyd
Tyrant and anti-tyrant : archetypes and exemplarity in Cornelius Nepos' Sicilian lives / Alexander Skufca
Death by narrative in Suetonius' lives / Cynthia Damon
Ruler cult and ancient biography / Federicomaria Muccioli
Life is but a dream: biography and dream-divination / Daniel Harris-McCoy
The Fassio of St. Perpetua and the creation of a hero-martyr / Jennifer A. Rea
Comparative eschatology in Alexander's letter to Olympias and the book of Revelation / Matthew W. Ferguson
Plutarch's heroes and the 'biographical synecdoche' / Alexei Zadorojnyi
Cassius Dio's contemporary history as memoir and its implications for authorial identity / Andrew Scott
Platonists and their lives / Svetla Slaveva-Griffin.

Edition Notes

Present volume the result of the 2015 Langford International Colloquium held at Florida State University. "Those papers which were originally presented at the colloquium appear hear in revised, annotated and often enlarged form."-- Preface, page viii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-303) and indexes.

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Prenton, UK
Series
ARCA : classical and medieval texts, papers and monographs -- 55, Papers of the Langford Latin seminar -- 17, ARCA, classical and medieval texts, papers, and monographs -- 55.
Copyright Date
2018

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Dewey Decimal Class
888/.0009
Library of Congress
PA3043 .L35 2015, PA3271

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Pagination
xiv, 310 pages
Number of pages
310

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL44257271M
ISBN 10
099546121X
ISBN 13
9780995461215
OCLC/WorldCat
1023050878

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