A History of Autobiography in Antiquity
Author: Georg Misch
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1950
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780415176088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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A History of Autobiography in Antiquity
Author: Georg Misch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-03
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 131785411X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is Volume V of nine historical works from the International Library of Sociology. This is part two of two looking at the history of the autobiography. Appearing in isolation as they do, autobiographies demand for their description and appreciation, a comprehensive view of the development of the human mind. This volume covers the development of autobiogrpahy in the Philosophic and Religious Movement; general tendencies of autobiography near the end of the fourth century.
Political Autobiographies and Memoirs in Antiquity
Author: Gabriele Marasco
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-09-23
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9004182993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough the examination of political autobiographies and memoirs, some preserved in their entirety, others known only from fragments, this book offers a fascinating picture of the way characters who stand out in history saw and represented themselves and their own political actions.
The Limits of Ancient Biography
Author: Brian McGing
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Published: 2007-12-31
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1910589489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe genre of biography in the ancient world is interestingly diverse and permeable and deserves intensive study, bearing as it does on ideas of characterization and the individual. This volume considers both the form and the content of biography across the ancient world, and is particularly interested in the frontiers with other related genres, such as history. The papers range from the Old Testament to the Arab world, from the New Testament to the Lives of Saints, from the classic Greek and Roman biographers to less well known practitioners of the art.
A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now
Author: Aliki Barnstone
Publisher: Schocken
Published: 1992-04-28
Total Pages: 848
ISBN-13: 0805209972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now is an invaluable collection. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This revised edition includes a newly expanded section of American poets from the colonial era to the present. "[A] splendid collection of verse by women" (TIME) throughout the ages and around the world; now revised and expanded, with 38 American poets.
The Development of Greek Biography
Author: Arnaldo Momigliano
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780674200418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArnaldo Momigliano traces the growth of ancient biography from the fifth century to the first century B.C. He asks new questions about the origins and development of Greek biography, and makes full use of new evidence uncovered in recent decades from papyri and other sources. By clarifying the social and intellectual implication of the fact that the Greeks kept biography and autobiography distinct from historiography, he contributes to an understanding of a basic dichotomy in the Western tradition of historical writing. The Development of Greek Biography is fully annotated, and includes a bibliography designed to serve as an introduction to the study of biography in general.
Women's History and Ancient History
Author: Sarah B. Pomeroy
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014-03-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1469611163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays explores the lives and roles of women in antiquity. A recurring theme is the relationship between private and public, and many of the essays find that women's public roles develop as a result of their private lives, specifically their family relationships. Essays on Hellenistic queens and Spartan and Roman women document how women exerted political power--usually, but not always, through their relationship to male leaders--and show how political upheaval created opportunities for them to exercise powers previously reserved for men. Essays on the writings of Sappho and Nossis focus on the interaction between women's public and private discourses. The collection also includes discussion of Athenian and Roman marriage and the intrusion of the state into the sexual lives of Greek, Roman, and Jewish women as well as an investigation of scientific opinion about female physiology. The contributors are Sarah B. Pomeroy, Jane McIntosh Snyder, Marilyn M. Skinner, Cynthia B. Patterson, Ann Ellis Hanson, Lesley Dean-Jones, Natalie Boymel Kampen, Mary Taliaferro Boatwright, and Shaye J.D. Cohen.
Mapping Lives
Author: Peter France
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004-09-23
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780197263181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays on the problems and functions of biography - particularly those of writers, thinkers and artists - investigate a subject of enduring importance for those interested in culture.
Women in Antiquity
Author: Sarah Milledge Nelson
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2007-03-01
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0759113904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchaeology is one of our most powerful sources of new information about the past, about the lives of our ancient and not-so-ancient ancestors. The contributors to Women in Antiquity consider the theoretical problems involved in discerning what the archaeological evidence tells us about gender roles in antiquity. The book includes chapters on the history of gender research, historical texts, mortuary analysis, household remains, hierarchy, and ethnoarchaeology, with each chapter teasing out the inherent difficulty in interpreting ancient evidence as well as the promise of new understanding. Women in Antiquity offers a fresh, accessible account of how we might grasp the ways in which sexual roles and identities shaped the past.
Cleopatra
Author: Duane W. Roller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0199829969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCleopatra VII (69-30 BC) is the most famous woman from classical antiquity. Yet her modern reputation is based largely on her post-antique representation in drama, art, and other media. The current study is the first to examine the queen solely from the source material from the Greco-Roman period: literary sources, Egyptian documents including those of the queen herself, her own writings, and her representations in art.
