Creative lives in classical antiquity :  poets, artists and biography / 
edited by] Richard Fletcher ; Johanna Hanink. 
 - Cambridge, United Kingdom ;  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  (c)2016. 
 - 1 online resource. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Part I. Opening remarks --  Orientation: what we mean by 'Creative lives' /  'Lives' as parameter: the privileging of ancient lives as a category of research c. 1900 /  Part II. Dead poets societies --  Close encounters with the ancient poets /  Recognizing Virgil /  Part III. Lives in unexpected places --  A poetic possession: Pindar's Lives of the poets /  What's in a life? Some forgotten faces of Euripides /  Lives from stone: Epigraphy and biography in Classical and Hellenistic Greece /  Part IV. Laughing matters and lives of the mind --  On bees, poets and Plato: Ancient biographers' representations of the creative process /  The life and philosophy of Aristippus in the Socratic epistles /  Imagination dead imagine: Diogenes Laertius' work of mourning /  Part V. Portraits of the artist --  'It is Orpheus when there is singing': The mythical fabric of musical lives /  The artists as anecdote: Creating creators in ancient texts and modern art history /  Freud and the biography of antiquity /  Envoi /  Johanna Hanink and Richard Fletcher --  Constanze Güthenke --  Barbara Graziosi --  Andrew Laird --  Anna Uhlig --  Johanna Hanink --  Polly Low --  Mary Lefkowitz --  Kurt Lampe --  Richard Fletcher --  Pauline A. Leven --  Verity Platt --  Miriam Leonard --  John Henderson. 
<br/><br/> "What happened when creative biographers took on especially creative subjects (poets, artists and others) in Greek and Roman antiquity? Creative Lives examines how the biographical traditions of ancient poets and artists parallel the creative processes of biographers themselves, both within antiquity and beyond. Each chapter explores a range of biographical material that highlights the complexity of how readers and viewers imagine the lives of ancient creator-figures. Work in the last decades has emphasized the likely fictionality of nearly all of the ancient evidence about lives of poets, as well as of other artists and intellectuals; this book now sets out to show what we might nevertheless still do with the rich surviving testimony for 'creative lives'-and the evidence that those traditions still shape how we narrate modern lives, too."-- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781316758403 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Classical biography--History and criticism.<br/>Biography as a literary form.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PA3043  / .C743 2016