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Greek biography and panegyric in late antiquity

Tomas Hägg, Philip Rousseau and Christian Høgel
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page ix)
  • Abbreviations (page xi)
  • Introduction: Biography and Panegyric (Tomas Hägg and Philip Rousseau, page 1)
  • 1. Philosophic Lives and the Philosophic Life: Porphyry and Iamblichus (Gilliam Clark, page 29)
  • 2. Birth, Death, and Divinity in Porphyry's Life of Plotinus (M.J. Edwards, page 52)
  • 3. Form and Meaning: The Vita Constantini and the Vita Antonii (Averil Cameron, page 72)
  • 4. Antony as Teacher in the Greek Life (Philip Rousseau, page 89)
  • 5. Philosophy and Simplicity: The Problem of Classical Education in Early Christian Biography (Samuel Rubenson, page 110)
  • 6. Your Honor, My Reputation: St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Funeral Oration on St. Basil the Great (Frederick W. Norris, page 140)
  • 7. How to Praise a Friend: St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Funeral Oration on St. Basil the Great (David Konstan, page 160)
  • 8. Eros Transformed: Same-Sex Love and Divine Desire. Reflections on the Erotic Vocabulary in St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Speech on St. Basil the Great (Jostein Børtnes, page 180)
  • 9. The Rhetoric of Praise in the Private Orations of Themistius (Robert J. Penella, page 194)
  • 10. Strategies of Representation in Collective Biography: Constructing the Subject as Holy (Patricia Cox Miller, page 209)
  • 11. The Syriac Life of Rabbula and Syrian Hellenism (G.W. Bowersock, page 255)
  • Contributors (page 273)
  • General Index (page 277)
  • Index Locorum (page 283)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
CR 52.1 (2002): 46-48 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3662474
JR 82.4 (Oct. 2002): 628-629 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1206530
AJP 823.1 (Spring 2002): 141-144 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1562011
JRS 94 (2004): 274-275 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4135094
CH 72.1 (Mar. 2003): 189-190 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4146809
BIO 25.2 (Spring 2002): 375-377 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/biography/v025/25.2garrison.html
Citable Link
Published: c2000
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520223882 (hardcover)
Series
  • Transformation of the Classical Heritage
Subject
  • European: Ancient to 400 C.E.
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