Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity

Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 385
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781316757321
ISBN-13 : 1316757323
Rating : 4/5 (323 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity by : Richard Fletcher

Download or read book Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity written by Richard Fletcher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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.


Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity Related Books

Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity
Language: en
Pages: 385
Authors: Richard Fletcher
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-21 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

GET EBOOK

What happened when creative biographers took on especially creative subjects (poets, artists and others) in Greek and Roman antiquity? Creative Lives in Classic
Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity
Language: en
Pages: 385
Authors: Richard Fletcher
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-21 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

GET EBOOK

This book examines how the biographical traditions of ancient poets and artists parallel the creative processes of biographers themselves, both within antiquity
Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity: Poets, Artists and Biography
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Johanna Hanink
Categories: Biography as a literary form
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

What happened when creative biographers took on especially creative subjects (poets, artists and others) in Greek and Roman antiquity? Creative Lives in Classic
The Ancient Lives of Virgil
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Philip Hardie
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-14 - Publisher: Classical Press of Wales

GET EBOOK

The Ancient Lives of the poet Virgil, written in prose (and sometimes in verse), have long enjoyed great, though controversial, influence. Modern critics have o
How to Think about War
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Thucydides
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-05 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

GET EBOOK

An accessible modern translation of essential speeches from Thucydides’s History that takes readers to the heart of his profound insights on diplomacy, foreig