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Informationen zum Autor Rhiannon Ash is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Merton College, Oxford University.Judith Mossman is Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham.Frances B. Titchener is Professor of History at Utah State University. Klappentext Fame and Infamy considers the central question of characterization within Greek and Roman historiography and biography from a fresh perspective, combining close readings of texts of individual authors and overarching exploration into questions of how and why characterization in the ancient world evolves in the ways that it does. Zusammenfassung Fame and Infamy honours Christopher Pelling, reflecting the range of his interests and demonstrating the extent of his influence in spearheading the so-called literary turn in the study of ancient historiography. The volumes twenty-four chapters are written by former pupils, graduate students, and close academic associates, themselves leading experts in their fields, from the UK and overseas. They consider the central question of characterization within Greek and Roman historiography and biography from a fresh perspective, combining close readings of texts of individual authors and overarching exploration into questions of how and why characterization in the ancient world evolves in the ways that it does. Spanning a wide period of time, and focusing on writers from both the Greek and Roman worlds -- from Herodotus to Cassius Dio, and from Cicero to Suetonius and beyond -- this volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of the genres of historiography and biography in the ancient world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements A Conversation Between Plutarch and Lamprias by Donald Russell Introduction: An Appreciation of Chris Pelling by Frances B. Titchener Chapter 1: BASANOS KAI PAIDIA: Image, Characterization, and Individuation in Sympotic Literature by David Gribble Chapter 2: Characterization in Herodotus by Emily Baragwanath Chapter 3: Putting Up Pyramids, Characterizing Kings by Katherine Clarke Chapter 4: Herodotus on Being 'Good': Characterization and Explanation by Mathieu de Bakker Chapter 5: 'The Medium is the Message': Herodotus and his Logoi, by Carolyn Dewald Chapter 6: Plutarch, Herodotus, and the Historian's Character by John Marincola Chapter 7: Self-Characterization and Political Thought in Xenophon's Anabasis, by Tim Rood Chapter 8: Implied Characterization and the Meaning of History in Xenophon's Hellenica, by Michael A. Flower Chapter 9: Aspect and Subordination in Plutarchan Narrative by Timothy E. Duff Chapter 10: Dressed for Success? Clothing in Plutarch's Demetrius, by Judith Mossman Chapter 11: 'The Love of Noble Deeds': Plutarch's Portrait of Aratus of Sicyon by Philip Stadter Chapter 12: Plutarch's Numa and the Rhetoric of Aetiology by Matthew Fox Chapter 13: Plutarch and Dio on Cicero at the Trial of Milo by Lynn Fotheringham Chapter 14: The Rapture and the Sorrow: Characterization in Sulla's Memoirs by Harriet L. Flower Chapter 15: Characterizing Augustus by Mark Toher Chapter 16: Teachers and Students in Roman Athens by Ewen Bowie Chapter 17: Tacitus and Germanicus: Monuments and Models by A. J. Woodman Chapter 18: At the End of the Rainbow: Nero and Dido's Gold (Tacitus Annals 16.1-3) by Rhiannon Ash Chapter 19: Colour in Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars, by Alexei V. Zadorojnyi Chapter 20: Bigger from a Distance: Appian on Antiochus 'the Great' by Luke Pitcher Chapter 21: Three Readings of Character in the Periochae of Livy by D. S. Levene Chapter 22: From Jerusalem to the Ends of the Earth: The Meaning of Paul's Two Names at Acts 13.9 by Jonathan Williams Chapter 23: Pagan and Christian Sex Lives in the Roman Empire by Simon Swain Chapter 24: Not the Whole Story? Moralizing Biography and Imitatio Christi, by Teresa Morgan Ref...
