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Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity: Poets, Artists and Biography
Richard Fletcher
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Description for Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity: Poets, Artists and Biography
hardcover. Examines how the biographical traditions of ancient poets and artists parallel the creative processes of biographers themselves, both within antiquity and beyond. Editor(s): Fletcher, Richard; Hanink, Johanna. Series: Cambridge Classical Studies. Num Pages: 380 pages, 6 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 3D; ACG; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 151 x 224 x 29. Weight in Grams: 574.
What happened when creative biographers took on especially creative subjects (poets, artists and others) in Greek and Roman antiquity? Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity 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 the lives of poets, as well as of other artists and intellectuals; this ... Read more
What happened when creative biographers took on especially creative subjects (poets, artists and others) in Greek and Roman antiquity? Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity 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 the lives of poets, as well as of other artists and intellectuals; this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Classical Studies
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107159082
SKU
V9781107159082
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About Richard Fletcher
Richard Fletcher is Associate Professor of Classics at Ohio State University. He specializes in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and the dynamic between Classics and contemporary art. He is the author of Apuleius' Platonism: The Impersonation of Philosophy (Cambridge, 2014) and is co-editor, with Wilson Shearin, of The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy (forthcoming). Johanna Hanink is Assistant Professor of ... Read more
Reviews for Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity: Poets, Artists and Biography
'Overall it is a study in receptions, and frequently the reception of receptions as audiences of one period or culture layer impressions upon those of their predecessors.' Eleanor Winsor Leach, Bryn Mawr Classical Review