After Ancient Biography
Modern Types and Classical Archetypes
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Open AccessFIT for purpose: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial to personalize surveillance colonoscopy for individuals at elevated risk of colorectal cancer
There is increasing demand for colorectal cancer (CRC) surveillance, but healthcare capacity is limited. The burden on colonoscopy resources could be reduced by personalizing surveillance frequency using the f...
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Lumbar spine loads are reduced for activities of daily living when using a braced arm-to-thigh technique
To evaluate the effect of the braced arm-to-thigh technique (BATT) (versus self-selected techniques) on three-dimensional trunk kinematics and spinal loads for three common activities of daily living (ADLs) si...
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Correction to: Biography as Censure: Suetonius and Procopius
The original version of this chapter was revised because Dr Tristan Power, alerted us that he had been incorrectly cited as the author of a book that was never published. The corrections have been carried out ...
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Conclusion: “Beauty Is Terror”
Donna Tartt’s bleary parable—classical studies and murder—Hollywood takes a look—ancient lives as spectacle—Plutarch on Film—Quo Vadis—Ben-Hur—Spartacus—Spartacus and the radicals—postcolonial Spartacus—enlargeme...
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Ancient Biographers and Modern Classicists: “What Is Truth?”
Over recent decades a lively debate has taken place, both among classicists and scholars of modern literature, about the legitimacy of biography as a subject of study, about whether it is a separable genre and...
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Biography as Censure: Suetonius and Procopius
Suetonius is a puzzle. He has a reputation as a muckraker, yet he was a sedulous public servant who imported into life-writing the careful methods of the librarian he once had been—much of his writing is lost,...
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Biography as Inner Drama: Athanasius’s Life of Antony
Hagiography a tabooed mode since the twentieth century—Evelyn Waugh, hagiographer—Waugh’s Helena—Eusebius’s life of Helena’s son, the Emperor Constantine—the Emperor’s unsavoury deeds whitewashed in that work—...
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Caustic Biography: Strachey & Co.
In the twentieth century multiple lives engender multiple perspectives—Oscar Wilde and the biographer as Judas—Froude eulogises Caesar and betrays his master Carlyle?—the First World War and the consequent dis...
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Paris in Parallel: Classical Biography in an Age of Revolution
How Plutarch inspired Charlotte Corday to murder—neo paganism in the French Revolution—revolutionary suicide, and how Montesquieu prepared the way for it—Plutarch in French literature—Montaigne’s admiration—wh...
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Biography as Representation: Plutarch’s Parallel Lives
Does Plutarch tell the truth?—Plutarch and myth—the impossible tale of Croesus and Solon—Plutarch as a portraitist, inner and outer—his dramatisation of personal conflict—examples from the Life of Alexander—hi...
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Biography as Persuasion: The Christian Gospels
When considered as biographies, controversy engulfs the Gospels. Are they indeed biographical? Who wrote them, when, where and for whom? They were once read in ways alien to us: out loud even when the reader w...
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Heroic Biography: Carlyle & Co
Ancient biography in the nineteenth century—an expanding pool of readers—the quest for the heroic—Carlyle’s lectures of 1840 and the resulting cult—his admiration for Mirabeau, Cromwell and Samuel Johnson—the ...
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Open AccessInvestigating the predictability of North Atlantic sea surface height
Interannual sea surface height (SSH) forecasts are subject to several sources of uncertainty. Methods relying on statistical forecasts have proven useful in assessing predictability and associated uncertainty ...
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Sessile Serrated Polyps with Synchronous Conventional Adenomas Increase Risk of Future Advanced Neoplasia
Surveillance colonoscopy guidelines following adenomas or sessile serrated adenomas/polyps (SSPs) are based on pathology features known to be associated with risk of future colorectal cancer. A synchronous con...
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Open AccessEvaluation of buccal swabs for pharmacogenetics
A simple, non-invasive sample collection method is key for the integration of pharmacogenetics into clinical practice. The aim of this study was to gain samples for pharmacogenetic testing and evaluate the var...
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Cultural Migration as Protestant Nostalgia: (2) Milton, Ruskin and Religious Longing
Continuing the theme of Protestant nostalgia, in this chapter Fraser concentrates on two writers, one from the seventeenth century, the other from the nineteenth, whose theology and religious convictions were ...
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Towards a New World Order: Literacy, Democracy and Literature in India and Africa, 1930–1965
This chapter examines the cosmopolitan effects of the spread of the English language in the post–Second World War world, as sponsored both by official agencies such as the British Council and UNESCO, and by co...
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A Cultural Cosmopolis
In his final chapter Fraser returns to the paradigm of cultural cosmopolitanism set out in Chap. 1. He notes its ubiquity, and then turns to its causes, which he ascribe...
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Cultural Migration as Protestant Nostalgia: (3) Purcell, the Popish Plot and the Politics of Latin
Concluding his theme of Protestant nostalgia, Fraser here focuses on a particular moment in historical time: the Restoration of the English monarchy in 1660 when, fresh from his continental exile, Charles II r...
