Koen De Temmerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3094240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Koen De Temmerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Koen |
| FAMILY NAME | De Temmerman |
| SIGNATURE | DE TEMMERMAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7943-8299 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 11 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Narrative, Imagination and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique Hagiography
This volume explores concepts of fiction in late antique hagiographical narrative in different cultural and literary traditions. It includes Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, Persian and Arabic material. Whereas scholarship in these texts has traditionally focussed on historical questions, this book approaches imaginative narrative as an inherent element of the genre of hagiography that deserves to be studied in its own right. The chapters explore …
Constructing Saints in Greek and Latin Hagiography
In the broadest terms, this book examines late antique and medieval hagio graphy -a modern umbrella term to which I return below -as narrative. 1 Historically speaking, this approach has only been established relatively recently in the field.For a long time after its emergence in the Counter Reformation, scholarship on hagiography was driven both by a distinct interest in questions of authorship and authenticity, and by a tendency to mine texts f…
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Ancient Biographies of Statesmen
This chapter discusses ancient biographies of statesmen. What is the nature of ancient political biography? It is the description of the life and deeds of a significant political player of the recent or far past, individually told or in a series, with the intent of edifying the readers. This means that such a work often has an encomiastic, or at any rate evaluative cast, and may even employ certain acknowledged untruths in order to bring out the …
Individual and Collected Lives in Antiquity
This chapter examines the implications of writing about individuals in the context of collections. A biography is, by definition, the written account of a person’s life, and therefore every biography is focused fundamentally on an individual. Nonetheless, the major biographers of Greece and Rome whose writings are extant—Cornelius Nepos, Plutarch, and Suetonius—all wrote Lives as parts of collections, and these collections influenced the form and…
Martyrs and Life-Writing in Late Antiquity
This chapter explores martyr accounts. Scholars traditionally divide these texts into two types: narrative representations of the suffering and death of martyrs (the so-called passiones ) on the one hand, and dramatic representations of the trial preceding this (the so-called acta or praxeis ), on the other. The exact semantic range of both labels is debated, but in any case the distinction does not capture the textual reality in its full complex…
Holy Men
This chapter assesses the special relationship between the ancient genre of biography and the religious phenomenon of holy men. Spiritual biographies are performative texts: there are many examples of characters who were established as holy men by the texts written about them. Some of these were totally invented by the authors, others lived in such a distant past or the information was so scarce or the intention of the authors were of such a natu…
What are bioi/vitae
This chapter highlights how the ancients approached and discussed genres, with a focus on the role of biography within the larger genre system. The ancients not only had a robust concept of genre, but they distinguished each genre by the inclusion, exclusion, and arrangement of specific formal features. Although these features are typically used to distinguish one genre from another, certain genres have elements in common. This ‘genre overlap’ of…
Solitude and Biography in Jerome’s Life of Hilarion
This chapter studies Jerome’s Life of Hilarion . Solitude poses particular problems to the biographer. How can one depict someone else’s solitary experience? The first half of the chapter offers a survey of representations of solitude in ancient biography and autobiography, and examines some of the reasons for their relative scarcity. The second half of the chapter addresses Jerome’s use of those traditions, arguing that the Life of Hilarion draw…
Types of Life-Writing in Suetonius’ Lives Of The Caesars and Illustrious Men
This chapter highlights Suetonius’ biographical work, considering some of the literary techniques he employed in both his Lives of the Caesars and Lives of Illustrious Men , and comparing his approach with the biographical tradition in Rome. The usual approach of studying the surviving parts of Suetonius’ œuvre separately from one another and instead comparing them to the works of their predecessors within the respective generic tradition has oft…
The Biographer as Literary Artist
This chapter focuses on Philostratus’ Apollonius . It begins by examining Philostratus’ explicit rhetorical claims and his curiously ambiguous narrative stance, before moving on to the anecdotal and doxographical material, and the overall characterization of the hero. The chapter then considers some key thematic strands of the work that seem to stretch normal generic parameters, these being its focus on foreign exoticism, Greek antiquarianism, an…
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography
Biography is one of the most widespread literary genres worldwide. This book offers the first wide-ranging, multi-authored survey on biography in Antiquity from its earliest representatives to Late Antiquity. It aims to be a broad introduction and a reference tool on the one hand, and to move significantly beyond the state-of-the-art on the other. To this dual end, it addresses conceptual questions about this sprawling genre, provides both in-dep…
Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature
This is the fourth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. The book deals with the narratological concepts of character and characterization and explores the textual devices used for purposes of characterization by ancient Greek authors from Homer to Heliodorus.; Readership: Anyone working on ancient Greek (narrative) literature, and anyone interested in issues of character and characterization in both ancient and modern literatu…
Character and Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature
Conceptualization, Questions, Plan of the Book 'When we think of the works of Tolstoy or George Eliot, we are not remembering Tolstoy and George Eliot, we are remembering Dolly, Kitty, Stiva, Dorothea and Casaubon' . These words by Iris Murdoch (1959: 266) underline the central thematic importance of characters in narrative.1 Yet for all its importance, 'character' is a notoriously slippery concept: the continuing lack of a comprehensive theory o…
Ancient biography and formalities of fiction
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Writing Biography in Greece and Rome
Ancient biography is now a well-established and popular field of study among classicists as well as many scholars of literature and history more generally. In particular biographies offer important insights into the dynamics underlying ancient performance of the self and social behaviour, issues currently of crucial importance in classical studies. They also raise complex issues of narrativity and fictionalization. This volume examines a range of…
The Saint as an Astute Heroine
This article provides a detailed analysis of character construction in the fifth century passio Caeciliae ( Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 1495 – 1495a – 1496). Our analysis sets out to challenge the general assumption that character construction in the late antique passions can correctly be described in terms of stereotypes. The passio Caeciliae appeals to and inverts reader expectations based upon traditional patterns in erotic narrative. We …
Crafting characters
Analyzes the characterization of the protagonists in the five extant, so-called 'ideal' Greek novels of the first few centuries C.E., using the conceptual couples of typification/individuation, idealistic/realistic characterization, and static/dynamic character to show their complexity.
Conclusion
The conclusion summarizes the main strands of chapters 1—5 and builds a number of overarching arguments regarding characterization in the five extant ancient Greek novels (while always remaining sensitive to the heterogeneity of the corpus): characterization in individual novels is more complex than merely topical depiction; ‘integrated’ depictions of novelistic heroes and heroines are semantically richer than scholars have observed (especially s…
Achilles Tatius
This chapter approaches both Clitophon-the-character and Leucippe as constructs crafted by Clitophon-the-narrator. It explores how the latter consciously invests both his former self and his beloved with strands of novelistic heroism and how at the same time these strands are questioned and made problematic. It first demonstrates that Clitophon’s introduction simultaneously evokes and complicates readers’ expectations about issues that will turn …
Heliodorus
This chapter shows how characterization in Heliodorus’ novel is inextricably bound up with its notably labyrinthine narrative structure (important characteristics are gradually reconstructed by the reader when reading the story) and at the same time challenges the widely-accepted view that Heliodorus’ protagonists are marked by idealizing depiction. This chapter favours a psychologically more realistic approach, for example by demonstrating that …
Achilles Tatius
The Novel Chariton
The third volume of the Studies in Ancient Greek narrative deals with the narratological category of space: how is space, including objects which function as 'props', presented in narrative texts and what are its functions (thematic, symbolic, psychologising, or characterising).
Xenophon of Ephesus
De novis libris iudicia How Ideal is the Oldest Ideal Greek Novel
In this review article, I first offer a critical discussion of S.D. Smith’s Greek Identity and the Athenian Past in Chariton: The Romance of Empire (Groningen 2007). Subsequently, I analyze in detail what I consider to be one of the most important contributions of the book; this is Smith’s identification of what I would call ‘epistemological relativism’ as a pattern underlying Chariton’s narrative technique. I single out two thematic areas in whi…
Bakhtin's Theory of the Literary Chronotope
This edited volume is the first scholarly tome exclusively dedicated to Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the literary chronotope. This concept, initially developed in the 1930s and used as a frame of reference throughout Bakhtin's own writings, has been highly influential in literary studies. After an extensive introduction that serves as a 'state of the art', the volume is divided into four main parts: Philosophical Reflections, Relevance of the Chro…
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography
Biography is one of the most widespread literary genres worldwide. This book offers the first wide-ranging, multi-authored survey on biography in Antiquity from its earliest representatives to Late Antiquity. It aims to be a broad introduction and a reference tool on the one hand, and to move significantly beyond the state-of-the-art on the other. To this dual end, it addresses conceptual questions about this sprawling genre, provides both in-dep…
Chaereas Revisited. Rhetorical Control in Chariton's ‘Ideal’ Novel Callirhoe
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A Flowery Meadow and a Hidden Metalepsis in Achilles Tatius
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Xenophon Ephesius, De Anthia et Habrocome Ephesiacorum libri V
The Saint as an Astute Heroine
This article provides a detailed analysis of character construction in the fifth century passio Caeciliae ( Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 1495 – 1495a – 1496). Our analysis sets out to challenge the general assumption that character construction in the late antique passions can correctly be described in terms of stereotypes. The passio Caeciliae appeals to and inverts reader expectations based upon traditional patterns in erotic narrative. We …
De novis libris iudicia How Ideal is the Oldest Ideal Greek Novel
In this review article, I first offer a critical discussion of S.D. Smith’s Greek Identity and the Athenian Past in Chariton: The Romance of Empire (Groningen 2007). Subsequently, I analyze in detail what I consider to be one of the most important contributions of the book; this is Smith’s identification of what I would call ‘epistemological relativism’ as a pattern underlying Chariton’s narrative technique. I single out two thematic areas in whi…
Blushing Beauty. Characterizing Blushes in Chariton's Callirhoe
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A Note on Chariton's Callirhoe 1, 4, 9
Blushing Beauty. Characterizing Blushes in Chariton's Callirhoe
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Personages op papyrus. Een narratologische analyse van de retorische karakteriseringstechnieken in de Oudgriekse roman Characters on Papyrus. A Narratological Analysis of the Rhetorical Techniques of …
Personages op papyrus. Een narratologische analyse van de retorische karakteriseringstechnieken in de Oudgriekse roman Characters on Papyrus. A Narratological Analysis of the Rhetorical Techniques of Characterization in the Ancient Greek Novel" published on 01 Jan 2009 by Brill
Xenophon Ephesius, De Anthia et Habrocome Ephesiacorum libri V
Chaereas Revisited. Rhetorical Control in Chariton's ‘Ideal’ Novel Callirhoe
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A Flowery Meadow and a Hidden Metalepsis in Achilles Tatius
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De novis libris iudicia How Ideal is the Oldest Ideal Greek Novel
In this review article, I first offer a critical discussion of S.D. Smith’s Greek Identity and the Athenian Past in Chariton: The Romance of Empire (Groningen 2007). Subsequently, I analyze in detail what I consider to be one of the most important contributions of the book; this is Smith’s identification of what I would call ‘epistemological relativism’ as a pattern underlying Chariton’s narrative technique. I single out two thematic areas in whi…
Bakhtin's Theory of the Literary Chronotope
This edited volume is the first scholarly tome exclusively dedicated to Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the literary chronotope. This concept, initially developed in the 1930s and used as a frame of reference throughout Bakhtin's own writings, has been highly influential in literary studies. After an extensive introduction that serves as a 'state of the art', the volume is divided into four main parts: Philosophical Reflections, Relevance of the Chro…
Achilles Tatius
The Novel Chariton
The third volume of the Studies in Ancient Greek narrative deals with the narratological category of space: how is space, including objects which function as 'props', presented in narrative texts and what are its functions (thematic, symbolic, psychologising, or characterising).
Xenophon of Ephesus
Crafting characters
Analyzes the characterization of the protagonists in the five extant, so-called 'ideal' Greek novels of the first few centuries C.E., using the conceptual couples of typification/individuation, idealistic/realistic characterization, and static/dynamic character to show their complexity.
Conclusion
The conclusion summarizes the main strands of chapters 1—5 and builds a number of overarching arguments regarding characterization in the five extant ancient Greek novels (while always remaining sensitive to the heterogeneity of the corpus): characterization in individual novels is more complex than merely topical depiction; ‘integrated’ depictions of novelistic heroes and heroines are semantically richer than scholars have observed (especially s…
Achilles Tatius
This chapter approaches both Clitophon-the-character and Leucippe as constructs crafted by Clitophon-the-narrator. It explores how the latter consciously invests both his former self and his beloved with strands of novelistic heroism and how at the same time these strands are questioned and made problematic. It first demonstrates that Clitophon’s introduction simultaneously evokes and complicates readers’ expectations about issues that will turn …
Heliodorus
This chapter shows how characterization in Heliodorus’ novel is inextricably bound up with its notably labyrinthine narrative structure (important characteristics are gradually reconstructed by the reader when reading the story) and at the same time challenges the widely-accepted view that Heliodorus’ protagonists are marked by idealizing depiction. This chapter favours a psychologically more realistic approach, for example by demonstrating that …
The Saint as an Astute Heroine
This article provides a detailed analysis of character construction in the fifth century passio Caeciliae ( Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 1495 – 1495a – 1496). Our analysis sets out to challenge the general assumption that character construction in the late antique passions can correctly be described in terms of stereotypes. The passio Caeciliae appeals to and inverts reader expectations based upon traditional patterns in erotic narrative. We …
Ancient biography and formalities of fiction
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Writing Biography in Greece and Rome
Ancient biography is now a well-established and popular field of study among classicists as well as many scholars of literature and history more generally. In particular biographies offer important insights into the dynamics underlying ancient performance of the self and social behaviour, issues currently of crucial importance in classical studies. They also raise complex issues of narrativity and fictionalization. This volume examines a range of…
Character and Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature
Conceptualization, Questions, Plan of the Book 'When we think of the works of Tolstoy or George Eliot, we are not remembering Tolstoy and George Eliot, we are remembering Dolly, Kitty, Stiva, Dorothea and Casaubon' . These words by Iris Murdoch (1959: 266) underline the central thematic importance of characters in narrative.1 Yet for all its importance, 'character' is a notoriously slippery concept: the continuing lack of a comprehensive theory o…
Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature
This is the fourth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. The book deals with the narratological concepts of character and characterization and explores the textual devices used for purposes of characterization by ancient Greek authors from Homer to Heliodorus.; Readership: Anyone working on ancient Greek (narrative) literature, and anyone interested in issues of character and characterization in both ancient and modern literatu…
Ancient Biographies of Statesmen
This chapter discusses ancient biographies of statesmen. What is the nature of ancient political biography? It is the description of the life and deeds of a significant political player of the recent or far past, individually told or in a series, with the intent of edifying the readers. This means that such a work often has an encomiastic, or at any rate evaluative cast, and may even employ certain acknowledged untruths in order to bring out the …
Individual and Collected Lives in Antiquity
This chapter examines the implications of writing about individuals in the context of collections. A biography is, by definition, the written account of a person’s life, and therefore every biography is focused fundamentally on an individual. Nonetheless, the major biographers of Greece and Rome whose writings are extant—Cornelius Nepos, Plutarch, and Suetonius—all wrote Lives as parts of collections, and these collections influenced the form and…
Martyrs and Life-Writing in Late Antiquity
This chapter explores martyr accounts. Scholars traditionally divide these texts into two types: narrative representations of the suffering and death of martyrs (the so-called passiones ) on the one hand, and dramatic representations of the trial preceding this (the so-called acta or praxeis ), on the other. The exact semantic range of both labels is debated, but in any case the distinction does not capture the textual reality in its full complex…
Holy Men
This chapter assesses the special relationship between the ancient genre of biography and the religious phenomenon of holy men. Spiritual biographies are performative texts: there are many examples of characters who were established as holy men by the texts written about them. Some of these were totally invented by the authors, others lived in such a distant past or the information was so scarce or the intention of the authors were of such a natu…
What are bioi/vitae
This chapter highlights how the ancients approached and discussed genres, with a focus on the role of biography within the larger genre system. The ancients not only had a robust concept of genre, but they distinguished each genre by the inclusion, exclusion, and arrangement of specific formal features. Although these features are typically used to distinguish one genre from another, certain genres have elements in common. This ‘genre overlap’ of…
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