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The Philosophical Life: Biography and the Crafting of Intellectual Identity in Late Antiquity (Patristic Monograph)
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Hardcover. Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living. They were also arenas for debating pressing philosophical questions and establishing intellectual credentials, as Arthur P. Urbano argues in this study of biographies composed in Late Antiquity. Series: Patristic Monograph Series (Naps). Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCA; HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 676.
Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living. They were also arenas for debating pressing philosophical questions and establishing intellectual credentials, as Arthur P. Urbano argues in this study of biographies composed in Late Antiquity. With its origins in the competing philosophical schools of Hellenistic Greece, the genre of the ""philosophical life"" provided verbal portraits of paradigmatic figures - usually rulers and philosophers - that epitomised diverse approaches to knowledge, piety, and the virtuous life. An eruption of biographical literature in Late Antiquity attests to a similar, but more intense, struggle ... Read more
Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living. They were also arenas for debating pressing philosophical questions and establishing intellectual credentials, as Arthur P. Urbano argues in this study of biographies composed in Late Antiquity. With its origins in the competing philosophical schools of Hellenistic Greece, the genre of the ""philosophical life"" provided verbal portraits of paradigmatic figures - usually rulers and philosophers - that epitomised diverse approaches to knowledge, piety, and the virtuous life. An eruption of biographical literature in Late Antiquity attests to a similar, but more intense, struggle ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
Series
Patristic Monograph Series (Naps)
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9780813221625
SKU
V9780813221625
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Arthur P. Urbano is associate professor of theology at Providence College, USA.
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