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Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity: Poets, Artists and Biography

Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity: Poets, Artists and Biography

Fletcher, Richard
Hanink, Johanna

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Classical Studies

Literary CriticismAncient History General

ISBN10: 1107159083
ISBN13: 9781107159082
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Nov 21 2016
Pages: 380
Weight: 1.28
Height: 1.01 Width: 5.76 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
What happened when creative biographers took on especially creative subjects (poets, artists and others) in Greek and Roman antiquity? Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity examines how the biographical traditions of ancient poets and artists parallel the creative processes of biographers themselves, both within antiquity and beyond. Each chapter explores a range of biographical material that highlights the complexity of how readers and viewers imagine the lives of ancient creator-figures. Work in the last decades has emphasized the likely fictionality of nearly all of the ancient evidence about the lives of poets, as well as of other artists and intellectuals; this book now sets out to show what we might nevertheless still do with the rich surviving testimony for 'creative lives' - and the evidence that those traditions still shape how we narrate modern lives too.

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