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Hägg/Rousseau,. "Frontmatter". Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity, edited by Tomas Hägg and Philip Rousseau, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000, pp. I-VI. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520925052-fm

Hägg/Rousseau (2000). Frontmatter. In T. Hägg & P. Rousseau (Ed.), Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity (pp. I-VI). Berkeley: University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520925052-fm

Hägg/Rousseau. 2000. Frontmatter. In: Hägg, T. and Rousseau, P. ed. Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. I-VI. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520925052-fm

Hägg/Rousseau,. "Frontmatter" In Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity edited by Tomas Hägg and Philip Rousseau, I-VI. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520925052-fm

Hägg/Rousseau. Frontmatter. In: Hägg T, Rousseau P (ed.) Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press; 2000. p.I-VI. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520925052-fm

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Frontmatter I
Contents VII
Preface IX
Abbreviations XI
Introduction: Biography and Panegyric 1
1. Philosophic Lives and the Philosophic Life: Porphyry and Iamblichus 29
2. Birth, Death, and Divinity in Porphyry's Life of Plotinus 52
3. Form and Meaning: The Vita Constantini and the Vita Antonii 72
4. Antony as Teacher in the Greek Life 89
5. Philosophy and Simplicity: The Problem of Classical Education in Early Christian Biography 110
6. Your Honor, My Reputation: St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Funeral Oration on St. Basil the Great 140
7. How to Praise a Friend: St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Funeral Oration for St. Basil the Great 160
8. Eros Transformed: Same-Sex Love and Divine Desire. Reflections on the Erotic Vocabulary in St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Speech on St. Basil the Great 180
9. The Rhetoric of Praise in the Private Orations of Themistius 194
10. Strategies of Representation in Collective Biography: Constructing the Subject as Holy 209
11. The Syriac Life of Rabbula and Syrian Hellenism 255
Contributors 273
General Index 277
Index Locorum 283

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Chapters in this book

Frontmatter I
Contents VII
Preface IX
Abbreviations XI
Introduction: Biography and Panegyric 1
1. Philosophic Lives and the Philosophic Life: Porphyry and Iamblichus 29
2. Birth, Death, and Divinity in Porphyry's Life of Plotinus 52
3. Form and Meaning: The Vita Constantini and the Vita Antonii 72
4. Antony as Teacher in the Greek Life 89
5. Philosophy and Simplicity: The Problem of Classical Education in Early Christian Biography 110
6. Your Honor, My Reputation: St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Funeral Oration on St. Basil the Great 140
7. How to Praise a Friend: St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Funeral Oration for St. Basil the Great 160
8. Eros Transformed: Same-Sex Love and Divine Desire. Reflections on the Erotic Vocabulary in St. Gregory of Nazianzus's Speech on St. Basil the Great 180
9. The Rhetoric of Praise in the Private Orations of Themistius 194
10. Strategies of Representation in Collective Biography: Constructing the Subject as Holy 209
11. The Syriac Life of Rabbula and Syrian Hellenism 255
Contributors 273
General Index 277
Index Locorum 283

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