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Greek biography and panegyric in late antiquity

Title: Greek biography and panegyric in late antiquity / edited by Tomas Hägg and Philip Rousseau ; with the assistance of Christian Høgel.
Publication: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Description

xii, 288 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The transformation of the classical heritage ; 31

Uniform Title

Transformation of the classical heritage ; 31.

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Note

Papers originally presented at a conference at the Centre for the Study of European Civilization, Faculty of Arts, University of Bergen (Norway), August 28-31, 1996.

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Contents

Introduction: Biography and Panegyric / Tomas Hagg and Philip Rousseau -- 1. Philosophic Lives and the Philosophic Life: Porphyry and Iamblichus / Gillian Clark -- 2. Birth, Death, and Divinity in Porphyry's Life of Plotinus / M. J. Edwards -- 3. Form and Meaning: The Vita Constantini and the Vita Antonii / Averil Cameron -- 4. Antony as Teacher in the Greek Life / Philip Rousseau -- 5. Philosophy and Simplicity: The Problem of Classical Education in Early Christian Biography / Samuel Rubenson -- 6. Your Honor, My Reputation: St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Funeral Oration on St. Basil the Great -- 7. How to Praise a Friend: St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Funeral Oration for St. Basil the Great / David Konstan -- 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 Bortnes -- 9. The Rhetoric of Praise in the Private Orations of Themistius / Robert J. Penella --
10. Strategies of Representation in Collective Biography: Constructing the Subject as Holy / Patricia Cox Miller -- 11. The Syriac Life of Rabbula and Syrian Hellenism / G. W. Bowersock.

ISBN

0520223888 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

00028710

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Columbia University Libraries