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Biography in late antiquity: a quest for the holy man

Patricia Cox c1983 © Patricia C. Miller
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Series
  • Transformation of the Classical Heritage
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520046122 (hardcover)
Subject
  • European: Ancient to 400 C.E.
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Introduction (page xi)
  • PART I Biography and Tradition: The Myth of Genre (page 1)
    • ONE Graeco-Roman Biography: Form and Function (page 3)
    • TWO Biography and Paradigms of the Divine Sage (page 17)
    • THREE Literary Aspects of Biography (page 45)
  • PART II Myth, History, and the Elusive Holy Man: Two Approaches (page 67)
    • FOUR Eusebius' "Life of Origen": Faces of History (page 69)
    • FIVE Porphyry's Life of Plotinus : Interior Familiars of Myth (page 102)
    • SIX Conclusion: The Creative Use of History (page 134)
  • Selected Bibliography (page 151)
  • Index (page 164)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
CW 78.1 (Sep.-Oct. 1984): 57 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4349681
CR 35.1 (1985): 197-198 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3063762
AHR 90.2 (Apr. 1985): 394-395 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1852682
JAAR 52.3 (Sep. 1984): 604-605 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1464223
JBL 104.2 (Jun. 1985): 373-375 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3261009
CH 53.4 (Dec. 1984): 522 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3166121
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