Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity : Poets, Artists and Biography
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Classical Studies
ISBN-10
1107159083
ISBN-13
9781107159082
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 21st, 2016
Print length
380 Pages
Weight
574 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 22.40 x 2.90 cms
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This book 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.
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.
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