Political autobiographies and memoirs in antiquity
Subtitle: a Brill companion
By: edited by Gabriele Marasco
Series: A Brill companion; Brill's companions in classical studies
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
ISBN-13: 9789004182998
Subjects: History and criticism; Memoirs; Biography as a literary form; Classical biography
Description: Through 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Abbreviations; title: Classical Greece/ V.J. Gray; title: Royal autobiography in the Hellenistic age/ Cinzia Bearzot; title: The Hellenistic age: autobiography and political struggles/ Gabriele Marasco; title: Republican Rome: autobiography and political struggles/ J.M. Candau; title: The late republic: autobiographies and memoirs in the age of the civil wars/ Jeffrey Tatum; title: Caesar and the Corpus Caesarianum/ Marc Mayer; title: The Augustan Age/ Joseph Geiger; title: Augustus: the emperor writes his own account/ Ronald Thomas Ridley; title: The early empire/ Pere Villalba Varneda; title: The second and third century/ Richard Westall and Frederick Brenk; title: The late empire/ Hartmut Leppin.