Portraits
Subtitle: biographical representation in the Greek and Latin literature of the Roman Empire
By: edited by M.J. Edwards and Simon Swain.
Contributors: Edwards, M. J.; Swain, Simon.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; OUP Oxford
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Classical literature -- History and criticism.; Literary form -- History -- To 1500.; Biography as a literary form.; Civilization, Greco-Roman.; Biography in literature.; Mimesis in literature.; Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. -- Biography -- History and criticism.; Greece -- History -- 146 B.C.-323 A.D. -- Biography -- History and criticism.; Greece -- Biography.; Rome -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-257) and index.