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Political autobiographies and memoirs in antiquity : a Brill companion /

Through the examination of political autobiographies and memoirs, some preserved in their entirety, others known only from fragments, this book offers a fascinating picture of the way characters who stand out in history saw and represented themselves and their own political actions.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Marasco, Gabriele
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Series:Brill's companions in classical studies.
Subjects:
Classical biography > History and criticism.
Biography as a literary form.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations
  • Classical Greece/ V.J. Gray
  • Royal autobiography in the Hellenistic age/ Cinzia Bearzot
  • The Hellenistic age: autobiography and political struggles/ Gabriele Marasco
  • Republican Rome: autobiography and political struggles/ J.M. Candau
  • The late republic: autobiographies and memoirs in the age of the civil wars/ Jeffrey Tatum
  • Caesar and the Corpus Caesarianum/ Marc Mayer
  • The Augustan Age/ Joseph Geiger
  • Augustus: the emperor writes his own account/ Ronald Thomas Ridley
  • The early empire/ Pere Villalba Varneda
  • The second and third century/ Richard Westall and Frederick Brenk
  • The late empire/ Hartmut Leppin.