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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
December 2016
Print publication year:
2016
Online ISBN:
9781316670651
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316670651
Subjects:
Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature
Series:
Cambridge Classical Studies
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Book description

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.

Reviews

'Overall it is a study in receptions, and frequently the reception of receptions as audiences of one period or culture layer impressions upon those of their predecessors.'Eleanor Winsor Leach, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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