Ancient biography
Subtitle: identity through Lives
By: edited by Francis Cairns and Trevor Luke ; with the assistance of Sandra Cairns and Kyle Gaylor
Contributors: Cairns, Francis, editor; Luke, Trevor S., editor; Langford Latin Seminar (17th : 2015 : Florida State University)
Series: ARCA : classical and medieval texts, papers and monographs -- 55; Papers of the Langford Latin seminar -- 17; ARCA, classical and medieval texts, papers, and monographs -- 55.
Publisher: Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd; Cairns Publications, Limited, Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Prenton, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780995461215
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Classical biography; Congresses; Biography; Classical literature
Notes: Present volume the result of the 2015 Langford International Colloquium held at Florida State University.  "Those papers which were originally presented at the colloquium appear hear in revised, annotated and often enlarged form."-- Preface, page viii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-303) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Francis Cairnes, Trevor Luke; title: Pindar, 'Lover of Athens': Dithyramb fr.76 and the biographical tradition / Flore Kimmel-Clauzet; title: Exemplarity and identity in Cornelius Nepos' on foreign generals / Rex Stem; title: Reading ethnic identity in the Historia Augusta / David Rohrbacher; title: Polyaenus and Polycrates' rise to power / Marcaline Boyd; title: Tyrant and anti-tyrant : archetypes and exemplarity in Cornelius Nepos' Sicilian lives / Alexander Skufca; title: Death by narrative in Suetonius' lives / Cynthia Damon; title: Ruler cult and ancient biography / Federicomaria Muccioli; title: Life is but a dream: biography and dream-divination / Daniel Harris-McCoy; title: The Fassio of St. Perpetua and the creation of a hero-martyr / Jennifer A. Rea; title: Comparative eschatology in Alexander's letter to Olympias and the book of Revelation / Matthew W. Ferguson; title: Plutarch's heroes and the 'biographical synecdoche' / Alexei Zadorojnyi; title: Cassius Dio's contemporary history as memoir and its implications for authorial identity / Andrew Scott; title: Platonists and their lives / Svetla Slaveva-Griffin.