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

Other author Hägg, Tomas.
Other author Rousseau, Philip.
Other author Høgel, Christian.
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©2000.
Descriptionxii, 288 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Greek prose literature--History and criticism. --Congresses.
Authors, Greek--Biography. --History and criticism. --Congresses.
Biography as a literary form--Congresses.
Praise in literature--Congresses.
Greece--Biography. --History and criticism. --Congresses.
Greece--Biography. --History and criticism. --Congresses.

SeriesTransformation of the classical heritage ; 31
Transformation of the classical heritage ; 31. ^A131875
Contents 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.
General notePapers 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 269-271) and indexes.
LCCN 00028710
ISBN0520223888 (cloth : alk. paper)

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