Portraits: Biographical Representation in the Greek and Latin Literature of the action Author(s): Parkinson

Author(s): Parkinson

EAN: 9780170183895

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Portraits: Biographical Representation in the Greek and Latin Literature of the action Author(s): ParkinsonThis collection of essays illustrates the growth of interest in the representation of individuals, which resulted from the changed environment within which Greek and Latin authors worked in late antiquity. The writings studied are not confined to biographies in the formal sense, since the aim of the collection is to show how the gamut of literary genres was modified by the presence of a new biographical ingredient. Simon Swain's general survey of the