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Author: Bruno Gentili
Publisher: London Studies in Classical Ph
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, the authors analyse ancient theories concerning the nature and the aims of historiography as well as biography. Such theories are investigated in their historical development, with special regard to the problem of oral communication in antiquity.
Author: B Gentili
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9004673121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, the authors analyse ancient theories concerning the nature and the aims of historiography as well as biography. Such theories are investigated in their historical development, with special regard to the problem of oral communication in antiquity.
Author: Karsten Friis Johansen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-06-20
Total Pages: 727
ISBN-13: 1134798253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTranslated into English for the first time, A History of Ancient Philosophy charts the origins and development of ancient philosophical thought.
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.
Author: Andreas Kluth
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-01-05
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1101554193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA dynamic and exciting way to understand success and failure, through the life of Hannibal, one of history's greatest generals. The life of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with his army in 218 B.C.E., is the stuff of legend. And the epic choices he and his opponents made-on the battlefield and elsewhere in life-offer lessons about responding to our victories and our defeats that are as relevant today as they were more than 2,000 years ago. A big new idea book inspired by ancient history, Hannibal and Me explores the truths behind triumph and disaster in our lives by examining the decisions made by Hannibal and others, including Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Steve Jobs, Ernest Shackleton, and Paul Cézanne-men and women who learned from their mistakes. By showing why some people overcome failure and others succumb to it, and why some fall victim to success while others thrive on it, Hannibal and Me demonstrates how to recognize the seeds of success within our own failures and the threats of failure hidden in our successes. The result is a page-turning adventure tale, a compelling human drama, and an insightful guide to understanding behavior. This is essential reading for anyone who seeks to transform misfortune into success at work, at home, and in life.
Author: Nigel Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-31
Total Pages: 829
ISBN-13: 113678800X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.
Author: John M. Rist
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780521589529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed and accurate account of the character and effects of Augustine's thought.
Author: Pierre Hadot
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780674013735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHadot shows how the schools, trends, and ideas of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy strove to transform the individual's mode of perceiving and being in the world. For the ancients, philosophical theory and the philosophical way of life were inseparably linked. Hadot asks us to consider whether and how this connection might be reestablished today.
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.
Author: Robert Fraser
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-08-25
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 3030351696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages. Close readings of ancient texts are framed by an assessment of their influence on the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon, and on the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, of responses to ancient biography of modern critics, and of its visible legacy in art and film. Crucially it asks what modern biographers can learn from their ancient predecessors. Are the challenges involved in life-writing still the same? Have working methods changed, and in what ways? What in the context of biographical writing is truth, and how are its interests best served? How is it possible, now as then, honestly to convey a life?
