Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity : Poets, Artists and Biography
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Classical Studies
ISBN-10
131661204X
ISBN-13
9781316612040
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 19th, 2021
Print length
383 Pages
Weight
480 grams
Dimensions
14.00 x 21.60 x 2.50 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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