Project

A portrait of the statesman as an artist. Writing statesmen in antiquity

Code
3PL01712
Looptijd
01-10-2012 → 30-09-2015
Financiering
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Onderzoeksdisciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
Trefwoorden
sociologie van de literatuur cultuurgeschiedenis staatslieden politieke theorie literatuurtheorie Griekse en Latijnse Letterkunde antieke historiografie
 
Projectomschrijving

How did ancient authors evaluate a statesman who united in one person the figures of literary artist and statesman? Focusing on a number of diachronically selected case studies this project will analyze how the combination of literary art and political power is perceived and represented by ancient authors, and of course by writing statesmen themselves.