Biographie und Bildungskultur

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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.

Autorentext
Dennis Pausch is a Research Fellow in the Department of Classical Studies at the Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen, Germany.

Zusammenfassung
"C'est un livre savant, ambitieux et à bien des égards novateur que cette dissertation présentée à l'Université de Giessen durant le semestre d'hiver 2003-2004."
Hubert Zehnacker in: Latomus LXVI/2007 "Die Lektüre des Buches sei [...] allen empfohlen, die sich für das Phänomen der antiken Biographie, für die behandelten Texte und für Formen und Funktionen der lateinischen Literatur des 2. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. interessieren."
Ranja Knöbl in: KULT_online 10/2006 "Pausch erschließt mit philologischem Repertoire und unter kulturwissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen Quellen, deren Interpretation lange Zeit unter Gattungsvorbehalten stand, und präsentiert die diese Begrenzungen überschreitenden, Gemeinsamkeiten heraustellenden Ergebnisse überzeugend auf ansprechendem Niveau."
Ulrich Lamprecht in: Historische Zeitschrift 2006

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