Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Hägg, Tomas.
2. Rousseau, Philip.
3. Høgel, Christian.

Description

1. xii, 288 p.; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. The transformation of the classical heritage ; 31

Subject

1. Greek prose literature > History and criticism > Congresses
2. Authors, Greek > Biography > History and criticism > Congresses
3. Biography as a literary form > Congresses
4. Praise in literature > Congresses
5. Greece > Biography > Congresses. > History and criticism

Contents

1. Philosophic lives and the philosophic life: Porphyry and Iamblichus / Gillian Clark -- Birth, death, and divinity in Porphyry's Life of Plotinus / M.J. Edwards -- Form and meaning: the Vita Constantini and the Vita Antonii / Averil Cameron -- Antony as teacher in the Greek Life / Philip Rousseau -- Philosophy and simplicity: the problem of classical education in early Christian biography / Samuel Rubenson -- Your honor, my reputation: St. Gregory of Nazianzus's funeral oration on St. Basil the Great / Frederick W. Norris -- How to praise a friend: St. Gregory of Nazianzus's funeral oration for St. Basil the Great / David Konstan -- 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 -- The rhetoric of praise in the private orations of Themistius / Robert J. Penella -- Strategies of representation in collective biography: constructing the subject as holy / Patricia Cox Miller -- The Syriac life of Rabbula and Syrian Hellenism / G.W. Bowersock.

Call number

1. JFE 02-9789

Note

1. 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.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-271) and indexes.

Title

1. Greek biography and panegyric in late antiquity / edited by Tomas Hägg and Philip Rousseau ; with the assistance of Christian Høgel.

Imprint

1. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.

Series

1. The transformation of the classical heritage ; 31

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-271) and indexes.

Added author

1. Hägg, Tomas.
2. Rousseau, Philip.
3. Høgel, Christian.

LCCN

1. 00028710

ISBN

1. 0520223888 (cloth : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 02-9789