H agg, Tomas, <br/><br/>
The art of biography in Antiquity /  [print] 
Tomas H agg. 
 - New York :  Cambridge University Press,  (c)2012. 
 - xv, 496 pages ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Prolegomena on biography modern and ancient --  1. In the beginning was Xenophon: memoir, encomium, romance --  2. Hellenistic theory and practice: fragments of industry --  3. Popular heroes: the slave, the king, the poet --  4. The Gospels: from sayings to a full life --  5. Political biography at Rome: a new start --  6. Plutarch and his Parallel Lives: ethical biography --  7. Ways of life: philosophers and holy men --  Epilogue on ancient and Christian biography. 
<br/><br/> "Greek and Roman biography embraces much more than Plutarch, Suetonius and their lost Hellenistic antecedents. In this book Professor H agg explores the whole range and diversity of ancient biography, from its Socratic beginnings to the Christian acquisition of the form in late antiquity. He shows how creative writers developed the lives of popular heroes like Homer, Aesop and Alexander and how the Christian gospels grew from bare sayings to full lives. In imperial Rome biography flourished in the works of Greek writers: Lucian's satire, Philostratus' full sophistic orchestration, Porphyry's intellectual portrait of Plotinus. Perhaps surprisingly, it is not political biography or the lives of poets that provide the main artery of ancient biography, but various kinds of philosophical, spiritual and ethical lives. Applying a consistent biographical reading to a representative set of surviving texts, this book opens up the manifold but often neglected art of biography in classical antiquity"--  "Memoir, encomium, romance In diesem Sinne ist der ideale, ja der postexistente Sokrates der reale, und der Sokrates samt seiner Xanthippe, den etwa die photographis-che Kleinkunst zeigen konnte, ist bedeutungslos, jaim hoheren Sinne unwirklich. Adolf von Harnack 1.1 glimpses of a prehistory The single most important force for the emergence of Greek biography in the fourth century BC, it has been convincingly argued, was the personal and historical impact of the figure of Socrates, as reconstructed or invented by the Socratic writers.1 But the one individual writer -- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107016699 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011049119 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>015986467  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Classical biography--History and criticism.<br/>Biography as a literary form.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PA3043.H999.A786 2012 PA3043