1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991000655849707536

Titolo

Space plasma simulation / J. Büchner, C.T. Dum, M. Scholer (eds.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2003

ISBN

3540006982

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 351 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm

Collana

Lecture notes in physics, 0075-8450 ; 615

Classificazione

LC QC809.P5

52.9.5

Altri autori (Persone)

Büchner, Jörg

Dum, Christian T.

Scholer, M.

Disciplina

530.440113

Soggetti

Space plasmas - Computer simulation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970783803321

Autore

Hägg Tomas

Titolo

The art of biography in Antiquity / / Tomas Hägg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-139-36617-3

1-107-23050-0

1-280-64762-0

9786613633675

1-139-37873-2

1-139-06132-1

1-139-37587-3

1-139-37730-2

1-139-37188-6

1-139-38016-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 496 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

HIS000000

Disciplina

880.9/35

Soggetti

Classical biography - History and criticism

Biography as a literary form

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prolegomena on biography modern and ancient -- 1. In the beginning was Xenophon: memoir, encomium, romance -- 2. Hellenistic theory and practice: fragments of industry -- 3. Popular heroes: the slave, the king, the poet -- 4. The Gospels: from sayings to a full life -- 5. Political biography at Rome: a new start -- 6. Plutarch and his Parallel Lives: ethical biography -- 7. Ways of life: philosophers and holy men -- Epilogue on ancient and Christian biography.

Sommario/riassunto

Greek and Roman biography embraces much more than Plutarch, Suetonius and their lost Hellenistic antecedents. In this book Professor Hägg explores the whole range and diversity of ancient biography, from its Socratic beginnings to the Christian acquisition of the form in late antiquity. He shows how creative writers developed the lives of popular heroes like Homer, Aesop and Alexander and how the Christian gospels



grew from bare sayings to full lives. In imperial Rome biography flourished in the works of Greek writers: Lucian's satire, Philostratus' full sophistic orchestration, Porphyry's intellectual portrait of Plotinus. Perhaps surprisingly, it is not political biography or the lives of poets that provide the main artery of ancient biography, but various kinds of philosophical, spiritual and ethical lives. Applying a consistent biographical reading to a representative set of surviving texts, this book opens up the manifold but often neglected art of biography in classical antiquity.