Christa Gray
Biographic Data
| ID | 5627905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christa Gray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christa |
| FAMILY NAME | Gray |
| SIGNATURE | GRAY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lecturer in Classics, University of Reading |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Early Latin
The Hagiographical Experiment
The Hagiographical Experiment: Developing Discourses of Sainthood throws fresh light on narratives about Christian holy men and women from Late Antiquity to Byzantium. Rather than focusing on the relationship between story and reality, it asks what literary choices authors made in depicting their heroes and heroines: how they positioned the narrator, how they responded to existing texts, how they utilised or transcended genre conventions for thei…
Martyrs and Communities (on K. Degen, Der Gemeinsinn der Märtyrer. Die Darstellung gemeinwohlorientierten Handelns in den frühchristlichen Martyriumsberichten)
Institutions and Ideology in Republican Rome
Institutions and Ideology in Republican Rome
This volume brings together a distinguished international group of researchers to explore public speech in Republican Rome in its institutional and ideological contexts. The focus throughout is on the interaction between argument, speaker, delivery and action. The chapters consider how speeches acted alongside other factors - such as the identity of the speaker, his alliances, the deployment of invective against opponents, physical location and a…
Reading Republican Oratory
This collection of essays explores the oratory of the Roman Republic as practised by everyone apart from Cicero. It addresses the problems arising from the partial and often unreliable evidence for these other Roman orators and investigates new ways of interpreting this evidence. The contributors seek to contextualize these fragments and testimonia, both in their original settings and over the course of their subsequent transmission, to explore a…
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…
Oxford Classical Monographs: Jerome, Vita Malchi: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary
A full translation and analysis of one of the more intriguing works by a figure who is central to our understanding of late antiquity and early Christianity: the translator, exegete, and controversialist Jerome (c.347-419/20AD)
Reading Republican Oratory
This collection of essays explores the oratory of the Roman Republic as practised by everyone apart from Cicero. It addresses the problems arising from the partial and often unreliable evidence for these other Roman orators and investigates new ways of interpreting this evidence. The contributors seek to contextualize these fragments and testimonia, both in their original settings and over the course of their subsequent transmission, to explore a…
Oxford Classical Monographs: Jerome, Vita Malchi: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary
A full translation and analysis of one of the more intriguing works by a figure who is central to our understanding of late antiquity and early Christianity: the translator, exegete, and controversialist Jerome (c.347-419/20AD)
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…
Institutions and Ideology in Republican Rome
Institutions and Ideology in Republican Rome
This volume brings together a distinguished international group of researchers to explore public speech in Republican Rome in its institutional and ideological contexts. The focus throughout is on the interaction between argument, speaker, delivery and action. The chapters consider how speeches acted alongside other factors - such as the identity of the speaker, his alliances, the deployment of invective against opponents, physical location and a…
Reading Republican Oratory
This collection of essays explores the oratory of the Roman Republic as practised by everyone apart from Cicero. It addresses the problems arising from the partial and often unreliable evidence for these other Roman orators and investigates new ways of interpreting this evidence. The contributors seek to contextualize these fragments and testimonia, both in their original settings and over the course of their subsequent transmission, to explore a…
The Hagiographical Experiment
The Hagiographical Experiment: Developing Discourses of Sainthood throws fresh light on narratives about Christian holy men and women from Late Antiquity to Byzantium. Rather than focusing on the relationship between story and reality, it asks what literary choices authors made in depicting their heroes and heroines: how they positioned the narrator, how they responded to existing texts, how they utilised or transcended genre conventions for thei…
Martyrs and Communities (on K. Degen, Der Gemeinsinn der Märtyrer. Die Darstellung gemeinwohlorientierten Handelns in den frühchristlichen Martyriumsberichten)
Early Latin
Art (6 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Classics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Political oratory (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)