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Ancient biography is now a well-established and popular field of study among classicists as well as many scholars of literature and history more generally. In particular biographies offer important insights into the dynamics underlying ancient performance of the self and social behaviour, issues currently of crucial importance in classical studies. They also raise complex issues of narrativity and fictionalization. This volume examines a range of ancient texts which are or purport to be biographical and explores how formal narrative categories such as time, space and character are constructed and how they address (highlight, question, thematize, underscore or problematize) the borderline between historicity and fictionality. In doing so, it makes a major contribution not only to the study of ancient biographical writing but also to broader narratological approaches to ancient texts.… (plus d'informations)
The volume reviewed here is the most recent addition to a significant scholarly output that pays homage to one of classical literature’s richest and most intriguing genres. Ιn particular, it collects current scholarly views on what is perhaps the most central issue of biographical writing, namely its relation to fictionality, which the volume’s contributors approach with the help of narratological analysis.
The book consists of sixteen contributions arranged in four sections, whose aim—as is made clear in the preface—is to explore the techniques used by authors of biographies in order to validate, enliven, and above all to ‘fictionalize’ their narratives. Contributions focus on the imperial period, limit themselves to Greek and Latin literature and do not treat Jewish works.
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Ancient biography is now a well-established and popular field of study among classicists as well as many scholars of literature and history more generally. In particular biographies offer important insights into the dynamics underlying ancient performance of the self and social behaviour, issues currently of crucial importance in classical studies. They also raise complex issues of narrativity and fictionalization. This volume examines a range of ancient texts which are or purport to be biographical and explores how formal narrative categories such as time, space and character are constructed and how they address (highlight, question, thematize, underscore or problematize) the borderline between historicity and fictionality. In doing so, it makes a major contribution not only to the study of ancient biographical writing but also to broader narratological approaches to ancient texts.
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The book consists of sixteen contributions arranged in four sections, whose aim—as is made clear in the preface—is to explore the techniques used by authors of biographies in order to validate, enliven, and above all to ‘fictionalize’ their narratives. Contributions focus on the imperial period, limit themselves to Greek and Latin literature and do not treat Jewish works.