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Creative lives in classical antiquity : poets, artists and biography

Fletcher, Richard, 1979- editor, Hanink, Johanna, 1982- editor

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\"What happened when creative biographers took on especially creative subjects (poets, artists and others) in Greek and Roman antiquity? Creative Lives 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 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.\"-- Provided by publisher

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Classical biography History and criticism. / Biography as a literary form.
• ISBN: 9781107159082

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PA3043.C74 2016	1	BOOK	GENERAL