Portraits Biographical Representation in the Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman Empire

Name: Portraits Biographical Representation in the Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman Empire
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ISBN: 9780198149378

ISBN-10: 0198149379

ISBN-13: 9780198149378

Edition: 1997

Authors: M. J. Edwards, Simon Swain

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This collection of essays illustrates the growth of interest in the representation of individuals, which resulted from the changed environment within which Greek and Latin authors worked in late antiquity. The writings studied are not confined to biographies in the formal sense, since the aim of the collection is to show how the gamut of literary genres was modified by the presence of a new biographical ingredient. Simon Swain's general survey of the biographical elements in late antique writing is followed by studies of Aulus Gellius, Dio Cassius, Jewish Martyrs, Simon Magus, Constantine, and Daniel the Stylite. The subjects all fall within the period of the Roman empire, and illustrate…

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List price: $280.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/4/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 5.67" wide x 8.82" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Simon Swain is Chair of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Warwick. He is the author of a number of well-known studies of the Greek literature of the Roman period and is co-editor (with Ja#347; Elsner and Stephen Harrison) of Severan Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2007).



Preface


Notes On Contributors



Biography and Biographic in the Literature of the Roman Empire



Dying for the Law: The Martyr's Portrait in Jewish-Greek Literature



Simon Magus, the Bad Samaritan



Aulus Gellius: The Non-Visual Portraitist


Appendix On the Sources for Polemo's ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1F71



Biographical History? Cassius Dio on the Early Principate



Eusebius' Vita Constantini and the Construction of Constantine



The Life of Daniel ROBIN LANE FOX


Epilogue Biography and the Biographic


Bibliography


Index