Classical Biography
Author : Alexander Adam
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,84 MB
Release : 1800
Category : Biography
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Author : Alexander Adam
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,84 MB
Release : 1800
Category : Biography
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Author : Michael Cooperson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 2000-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139426695
Pre-modern Arabic biography has served as a major source for the history of Islamic civilization. In this 2000 study exploring the origins and development of classical Arabic biography, Michael Cooperson demonstrates how Muslim scholars used the notions of heirship and transmission to document the activities of political, scholarly and religious communities. The author also explains how medieval Arab scholars used biography to tell the life-stories of important historical figures by examining the careers of the Abbasid Caliph al- Ma'mun, the Shiite Imam Ali al-Rida, the Sunni scholar Ahmad Ibn Hanbal and the ascetic Bishr al-Hafi, each of whom represented a tradition of political and spiritual heirship to the Prophet. Drawing on anthropology and comparative religion, as well as history and literary criticism, the book considers how each figure responded to the presence of the others and how these responses were preserved by posterity.
Author : Christopher Irving
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 10,61 MB
Release : 1822
Category : Biography
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Author : George Roberts (schoolmaster.)
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 25,64 MB
Release : 1820
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Author : William Smith
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Classical dictionaries
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Author : William Smith
Publisher :
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Biography
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Author : William Smith
Publisher :
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Classical dictionaries
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Author : William Smith
Publisher :
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 36,96 MB
Release : 1850
Category : Classical dictionaries
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Author : Robert Fraser
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030351696
Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages. Close readings of ancient texts are framed by an assessment of their influence on the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon, and on the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, of responses to ancient biography of modern critics, and of its visible legacy in art and film. Crucially it asks what modern biographers can learn from their ancient predecessors. Are the challenges involved in life-writing still the same? Have working methods changed, and in what ways? What in the context of biographical writing is truth, and how are its interests best served? How is it possible, now as then, honestly to convey a life?
Author : Tomas Hägg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 38,60 MB
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 110701669X
Examines the whole spectrum of Greek and Roman biography, which explores the virtues and vices of philosophers, statesmen and poets.