Fame and Infamy: Essays for Christopher Pelling on Characterization in Greek and Roman Biography and Historiography

Title Pages
Epigraph
Acknowledgements
A Conversation Between Plutarch and Lamprias
An Appreciation of Chris Pelling
Basanos Kai Paidia
Characterization in Herodotus
Putting up Pyramids, Characterizing Kings
Herodotus on Being ‘Good’
‘The Medium is the Message’
Plutarch, Herodotus, and the Historian’s Character
Self-Characterization and Political Thought in Xenophon’s Anabasis
Implied Characterization and the Meaning of History in Xenophon’s Hellenica
Aspect and Subordination in Plutarchan Narrative
Dressed for Success? Clothing in Plutarch’s Demetrius
‘The Love of Noble Deeds’. Plutarch’s Portrait of Aratus of Sicyon
Plutarch’s Numa and the Rhetoric of Aetiology
Plutarch and Dio on Cicero at the Trial of Milo
The Rapture and the Sorrow
Characterizing Augustus
Teachers and Students in Roman Athens
Tacitus and Germanicus
At the End of the Rainbow. Nero and Dido’s Gold (Tacitus Annals 16.1–3)
Colour in Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars
Bigger from a Distance
Three Readings of Character in the Periochae of Livy
From Jerusalem to the Ends of the Earth
Pagan and Christian Sex Lives in the Roman Empire
Not the Whole Story? Moralizing Biography and Imitatio Christi
References
Index Locorum
General Index