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Biographie und Bildungskultur

Biographie und Bildungskultur

Pausch, Dennis

Hardcover

Series: Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies, Book 4

Literary CriticismAncient History GeneralItalian History

ISBN10: 3110182475
ISBN13: 9783110182477
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Oct 25 2004
Pages: 418
Weight: 1.91
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: German

What role did biographies play for the intelligentsia of the 2nd century AD? What literary forms were used by contemporary authors in their personal portrayals? These two questions have led to this cross-genre investigation of the personal portraits in the letters of Pliny the Younger, in the miscellaneous work of Gellius, and in the Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius. Among the common features which can thus be observed are the normative potential of historical figures, the commemoration of contemporaries, and the interaction with communicative conditions of the Roman Empire. Such a functional and historical perspective further demonstrates that many of the characteristics of the featured authors, which to date have been seen as deviations from the genre tradition, are, in actuality, conscious developments, closely related to the authors' common social and cultural background.

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