Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download Classical Biography full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Classical Biography ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Christopher Irving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Catechism of Classical Biography: written by Christopher Irving and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Koen De Temmerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191007528
Total Pages : 793 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography written by Koen De Temmerman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography is one of the most widespread literary genres worldwide. Biographies and autobiographies of actors, politicians, Nobel Prize winners, and other famous figures have never been more prominent in book shops and publishers' catalogues. This Handbook offers a wide-ranging, multi-authored survey on biography in Antiquity from its earliest representatives to Late Antiquity. It aims to be a broad introduction and a reference tool on the one hand, and to move significantly beyond the state-of-the-art on the other. To this end, it addresses conceptual questions about this sprawling genre, offers both in-depth readings of key texts and diachronic studies, and deals with the reception of ancient biography across multiple eras up to the present day. In addition, it takes a wide approach to the concept of ancient biography by examining biographical depictions in different textual and visual media (epigraphy, sculpture, architecture) and by providing outlines of biographical developments in ancient and late antique cultures other than Graeco-Roman. Highly accessible, this book aims at a broad audience ranging from specialists to newcomers in the field. Chapters provide English translations of ancient (and modern) terminology and citations. In addition, all individual chapters are concluded by a section containing suggestions for further reading on their specific topic.
Author : Michael Cooperson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139426695
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Classical Arabic Biography written by Michael Cooperson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : William Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 948 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology, and Geography written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Koen De Temmerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316598500
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Writing Biography in Greece and Rome written by Koen De Temmerman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient biography is now a well-established and popular field of study among classicists as well as many scholars of literature and history more generally. In particular biographies offer important insights into the dynamics underlying ancient performance of the self and social behaviour, issues currently of crucial importance in classical studies. They also raise complex issues of narrativity and fictionalization. This volume examines a range of ancient texts which are or purport to be biographical and explores how formal narrative categories such as time, space and character are constructed and how they address (highlight, question, thematize, underscore or problematize) the borderline between historicity and fictionality. In doing so, it makes a major contribution not only to the study of ancient biographical writing but also to broader narratological approaches to ancient texts.
Author : Polymnia Athanassiadi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Julian written by Polymnia Athanassiadi and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the transformation of a reclusive and scholarly adolescent into a successful general and an audacious social reformer. The author traces the sequence of the Emperor Julian's responses to inner and outward challenges and considers the tensions and conflicts each new choice created for him.
Author : Eleanor Goltz Huzar
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452910766
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Mark Antony written by Eleanor Goltz Huzar and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tomas Hägg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110701669X
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Art of Biography in Antiquity written by Tomas Hägg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the whole spectrum of Greek and Roman biography, which explores the virtues and vices of philosophers, statesmen and poets.
Author : John Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Ancient history written by John Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Suchet
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802192912
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Beethoven written by John Suchet and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An ideal ‘first book’ on Beethoven” from one of the world’s most eminent classical music aficionados (Booklist). Beethoven scholar and classical radio host John Suchet has had a lifelong, ardent interest in the man and his music. Here, in his first full-length biography, Suchet illuminates the composer’s difficult childhood, his struggle to maintain friendships and romances, his ungovernable temper, his obsessive efforts to control his nephew’s life, and the excruciating decline of his hearing. This absorbing narrative provides a comprehensive account of a momentous life, as it takes the reader on a journey from the composer’s birth in Bonn to his death in Vienna. Chronicling the landmark events in Beethoven’s career—from his competitive encounters with Mozart to the circumstances surrounding the creation of the well-known “Für Elise” and Moonlight Sonata—this book enhances understanding of the composer’s character, inspiring a deeper appreciation for his work. Beethoven scholarship is constantly evolving, and Suchet draws on the latest research, using rare source material (some of which has never before been published in English) to paint a complete and vivid portrait of the legendary prodigy. “A gripping and thought-provoking read.” —Howard Shelley, pianist and conductor “By exercising a genuine authority in identifying how Beethoven, the man, manifests himself in our appreciation of the music, Suchet brings an incisive freshness to an extraordinary life.” —Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music
Author : Arnaldo Momigliano
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674200418
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Development of Greek Biography written by Arnaldo Momigliano and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arnaldo Momigliano traces the growth of ancient biography from the fifth century to the first century B.C. He asks new questions about the origins and development of Greek biography, and makes full use of new evidence uncovered in recent decades from papyri and other sources. By clarifying the social and intellectual implication of the fact that the Greeks kept biography and autobiography distinct from historiography, he contributes to an understanding of a basic dichotomy in the Western tradition of historical writing. The Development of Greek Biography is fully annotated, and includes a bibliography designed to serve as an introduction to the study of biography in general.
Author : George Park Fisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ancient history written by George Park Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Smaller Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology, and Geography written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
![Download Classical biography, selected [and tr.] from 'Plutarch's Lives'. PDF Online Free](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/rUsBAAAAQAAJ?fife=w200-h370)
Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Classical biography, selected [and tr.] from 'Plutarch's Lives'. written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian McGing
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589489
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Limits of Ancient Biography written by Brian McGing and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2007-12-31 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genre of biography in the ancient world is interestingly diverse and permeable and deserves intensive study, bearing as it does on ideas of characterization and the individual. This volume considers both the form and the content of biography across the ancient world, and is particularly interested in the frontiers with other related genres, such as history. The papers range from the Old Testament to the Arab world, from the New Testament to the Lives of Saints, from the classic Greek and Roman biographers to less well known practitioners of the art.
Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Old World Worthies; Or, Classical Biography written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0744036852
Total Pages : 1059 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Composers written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 1059 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The only love affair I have ever had was with music.” Maurice Ravel A compelling celebration of more than 90 of the world’s most influential composers from the medieval period to the present day, Composers reveals the fascinating stories of their lives, loves, and works. Biographical entries – introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured composer – trace the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired each musical genius. Profiles offer revealing insights into what drove each individual to create the musical masterpieces – symphonies, concertos, and operatic scores – that changed the direction of classical music and are still celebrated and treasured today. Lavishly illustrated with paintings or photographs of each composer, alongside original musical scores and personal correspondence, images of their homes and where they worked, and personal effects and other important artifacts, the book introduces the key influences, themes, and working methods of each individual, setting their works within a wider historical and cultural context. Charting the development of classical music and music movements across the centuries, Composers provides a compelling glimpse into the personal lives, loves, and influences of the giants of the classical music canon.
