Fame and infamy : essays on characterization in Greek and Roman biography and historiography / Rhiannon Ash, Judith Mossman, and Frances B. Titchener.

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Other Authors:	Pelling, C. B. R. (honouree.), Ash, Rhiannon (Editor), Mossman, Judith (Editor), Titchener, Frances B., 1954- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	To 1500 Biography > To 500. Historiography > Rome. Historiography > Greece > History > To 1500. Classical biography. Classical biography Biography Historiography Greece Rome (Empire) History
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Table of Contents:

Basanos kai paidia : image, characterization, and individuation in sympotic literature / David Gribble
Characterization in Herodotus / Emily Baragwanath
Putting up pyramids, characterizing kings / Katherine Clarke
Herodotus on being 'good' : characterization and explanation / Mathieu de Bakker
The medium is the message : Herodotus and his logoi / Carolyn Dewald
Plutarch, Herodotus, and the historian's character / John Marincola
Self-characterization and political thought in Xenophon's anabasis / Tim Rood
Implied characterization and the meaning of history in Xenophon's hellenica / Michael A. Flower
Aspect and subordination in Plutarchan narrative / Timothy E. Duff
Dressed for success? Clothing in Plutarch's demetrius / Judith Mossman
The love of noble deeds : Plutarch's portrait of Aratus of Sicyon / Philip Stadter
Plutarch's numa and the rhetoric of aetiology / Matthew Fox
Plutarch and Dio on Cicero at the trial of Milo / Kynn Fotheringham
The rapture and the sorrow : characterization in Sulla's memoirs / Harriet I. Flower
Characterizing Augustus / Mark Toher
Teachers and students in Roman Athens / Ewen Bowie
Tacitus and Germanicus : monuments and models / A.J. Woodman
At the end of the rainbow : Nero and Dido's gold (Tacitus annals 16.1-3) / Rhiannon Ash
Colour in Suetonius' lives of the Caesars / Alexei V. Zadorojnyi
Bigger from a distance : Appian on Antiochus 'the great' / Luke Pitcher
Three readings of character in the periochae of Livy / D.S. Levene
From Jerusalem to the ends of the earth : the meaning of Paul's two names at Acts 13.9 / Jonathan Williams
Pagan and Christian sex lives in the Roman Empire / Simon Swain
Not the whole story? : moralizing biography and Imitatio Christi / Teresa Morgan.

Fame and infamy : essays on characterization in Greek and Roman biography and historiography / Rhiannon Ash, Judith Mossman, and Frances B. Titchener.

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