A History of Autobiography in Antiquity

by Georg Misch

Overview

This is Volume V of nine historical works from the International Library of Sociology. This is part two of two looking at the history of the autobiography. Appearing in isolation as they do, autobiographies demand for their description and appreciation, a comprehensive view of the development of the human mind. This volume covers the development of autobiogrpahy in the Philosophic and Religious Movement; general tendencies of autobiography near the end of the fourth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317854111
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/03/2014
Series:	International Library of Sociology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	361
File size:	995 KB

About the Author

Georg Misch

Table of Contents

VOLUME II: Part II (continued) III. THE DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN THE PHILOSOPHIC AND RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT I. The Disclosure of Personality in Cicero's Letters II. Self-portrayal in Realistic Literature: Lucian. III. The Portrayal of Individuality in Philosophic Self-scrutiny Seneca. Epictetus. Marcus Aurelius. IV. Religious Self-portrayal and the Life-Story of the Soul (I) The Hellenistic type of Stories of Conversion (2) States of ecstasy and dreams as a literary theme: the Sacred Discourses of Aelius Aristides (3) The History of the Soul in Hellenistic Mysticism (4) The Influence of Christianity and its Historic Background Part III THE FLOWERING OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN LATE ANTIQUITY CHAP. I. GENERAL TENDENCIES OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY NEAR THE END OF THE FOURTH CENTURY. I. The Autobiography of the rhetorician Libanius. II. Self-portrayal of Christian Prelates in the ecclesiastical controversies and struggles for power: Priscillian, Nestorius III. Ascetic Literature and Public Confession: the Transition from confessional practices to the Literary Form of Confessions IV. Neoplatonic self-communion and the Christian religion II. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL POEMS OF GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS I. The prelate's autobiography II. The Neoplatonic Christian's metaphysical and religious poetry III. THE CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE I. The self-scrutiny of the new convert In the Soliloquies II. The metaphysical and religious interpretation of the story of Augustine's life In the Confessions III. The construction of the Confessions IV. LATE PRODUCTIONS OF ANCIENT AUTOBIOGRAPHY I. The spread of the Literature of Confessions in the fifth Century: Ennodius, Paulinus of Pella, Patrick II. The deepening of Writers' Autobiography in Augustine's Retractations III. The Wisdom of the Ancients in the changing World: Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy