Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

The Oxford handbook of ancient biography / edited by Koen De Temmerman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020Edition: First editionDescription: xxvi, 766 pagine ; 25 cmContent type:
  • testo (txt)
Media type:
  • senza mediazione (n)
Carrier type:
  • volume (nc)
ISBN:
  • 9780198703013
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • CT 35.O94 2020
Summary: "Biography is one of the most widespread literary genres worldwide. This book offers the first 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 double end, it addresses conceptual questions about this sprawling genre, provides both in-depth readings of key-texts and diachronic studies, and deals with the reception of ancient biography in subsequent eras up to today. In addition, it approaches the concept of ancient biography more widely than other reference tools on the topic have done. It does this by examining biographical depictions in different textual and visual media and by providing outlines of biographical developments in ancient and late antique cultures other than the Graeco-Roman one".
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Opera (Magaz.) Opera (Magaz.) Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Temporary Library CT 35.O94 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0030212680

Bibliografia (pagine [599]-674) e indici.

"Biography is one of the most widespread literary genres worldwide. This book offers the first 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 double end, it addresses conceptual questions about this sprawling genre, provides both in-depth readings of key-texts and diachronic studies, and deals with the reception of ancient biography in subsequent eras up to today. In addition, it approaches the concept of ancient biography more widely than other reference tools on the topic have done. It does this by examining biographical depictions in different textual and visual media and by providing outlines of biographical developments in ancient and late antique cultures other than the Graeco-Roman one".