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Journal articles on the topic "Emperors – biography"

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BENOIST, STÉPHANE. "BIOGRAPHY, HISTORY, AND MEMORY ABOUT SOME IMPERIAL FIGURES." Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 60, no. 1 (2017): 49–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-5370.12047.

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Abstract This is a paper about some imperial figures, and mainly the first emperor, Augustus, through the reception of his persona during the first four centuries of the Principate. In three sections, a few aspects of a Roman perception of history are developed through various uses of autobiography, biography, and historical narratives about emperors, from the very beginnings to the reception, from the Antonines to the Theodosians, of model portraits of emperors. The imperial history was made of personal itineraries and biographies, in a ‘republican’ staging: the permanence of a ‘Populus Roman
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Rohrbacher, David. "Physiognomics in Imperial Latin Biography." Classical Antiquity 29, no. 1 (2010): 92–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ca.2010.29.1.92.

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A distinctive feature of the biographies of Suetonius is his methodical and detailed description of the physical appearances of the emperors. This feature was adopted by two fourth-century Latin writers, Ammianus Marcellinus and the anonymous author of the Historia Augusta. This study will explore how ancient theories of the relationship between appearance and character intersect with the physical descriptions of emperors the authors provide. These authors reveal themselves to be engaged with contemporary approaches to the question without being bound by any one theory, and thus presuppose a r
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Weimar, Gregor Marius. "“They will know and fear the law” – Emperor Yongzheng’s Preface in the Great Qing Code of 1740." Ming Qing Yanjiu 28, no. 1 (2024): 88–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24684791-12340079.

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Abstract The biography of the Yongzheng Emperor by Pei Huang (1974) bears the title “Autocracy at Work” and Mote (2010: 887) calls this Qing dynasty emperor a “secretive, awesome autocrat”. The translation and analysis of the Manchu text of Yongzheng’s sioi/preface to the Great Qing Code reveals the correctness of these statements about this emperor’s type of government. Embedded in statements of truthfulness to the original Chinese legal ideas and an extensive quote ascribed to the Zhou Li, dedications of benevolence of the emperors in their rulings and judgments of cases, filial piety toward
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Schulz, Verena. "Material to Remember?" Mnemosyne 73, no. 2 (2019): 296–319. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-12342599.

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Abstract This paper discusses how the space designed by ‘bad’ emperors such as Nero and Domitian is described in Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius. It argues that these authors use space to depict these emperors as tyrants. First, we will study how Roman emperors use space to fashion their memory. Their design of space is subject to interpretation, in particular as regards Roman emperors who were praised during their lifetime, but were considered tyrants after their death. In later historiography and biography, the depiction of their imperial space fulfils several functions. These functions,
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Sidebottom, Harry. "Dio of Prusa and the Flavian Dynasty." Classical Quarterly 46, no. 2 (1996): 447–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cq/46.2.447.

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After his return from exile in A.D. 96 Dio of Prusa claims that even before it he had known the homes and tables of rich men, not only private individuals but satraps and kings (i.e. governors and emperors, Or. 7.66). Following the lead of Philostratus (V.A. 5.27–38) modern scholars have seen Dio as a confidant of the Flavian dynasty: amicus to Vespasian, possibly a special envoy of Vespasian to the Grek east, amicus to Titus, and friend and adviser to a minor member of the house T. Flavius Sabinus. These views are important not only for the biography of Dio, but also for the general question
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Nenarokova, Maria R. "Einhard’s Vita Karoli Magni: Dialogue with Classical Genre." SibScript 26, no. 1 (2024): 140–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.21603/sibscript-2024-26-1-140-149.

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Vita Karoli Magni (The Life of Charlemagne) was the first medieval biography. It was written by Einhard, a prominent figure of the Carolingian era, who used some biographies of Roman emperors by Suetonius. This article introduces a comparative analysis of Einhard’s Vita Karoli Magni and Suetonius’ biographies in terms of structure and composition. The main research objectives were to define to what degree Einhard followed the chosen pattern, as well as to identify the new features the medieval biography acquired as compared with the texts by Suetonius. The study involved descriptive, cultural-
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Di cosmo, Antonio Pio. "The tale of the significant facts of the Empire’s life. Interpretations and literary representations of the election and departure of the Augusti from Constantine to Julian." Revista Portuguesa de História 51 (July 22, 2020): 15–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/0870-4147_51_1.

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Panegyrists, bishops, and secular intellectuals recounted the salient events of the Empire and emphasized some events in the biography of the Emperors. These interpreted and adapt the facts, and so favored the sovereign for which they write. These storytellers become arbiters of facts and judges of the Augusti. The panegyrists oftentimes eulogized them, otherwise, the Bishops exercised episcopal munera and discharged them or condemned them, while the pagan intellectuals are critics and longed for a return to tradition. These can also redesign the imagery of Roman power.
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KEENER, CRAIG S. "Otho: A Targeted Comparison of Suetonius's Biography and Tacitus's History, with Implications for the Gospels' Historical Reliability." Bulletin for Biblical Research 21, no. 3 (2011): 331–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/26424373.

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Abstract A majority of scholars today recognize that the Gospels are ancient biographies. This recognition has implications for our valuation of the information content in the Gospels. Biographies written as soon after the subject's life as the Gospels normally include substantial historical information. The biographies of the later emperors in Suetonius offer a reasonable test case. Comparing Suetonius's biography of Otho with information about Otho in Tacitus's Histories, as well as Plutarch's biographies of Galba and Otho, confirms that Suetonius, whatever his other agendas, did not invent
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Throness, Aaron. "A Critical Biography of Zhu Zhanshan, Prince Xian of Xiang (1406–1478)." T'oung Pao 109, no. 1-2 (2023): 86–141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10901003.

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Abstract This essay offers a critical biography of one of Ming China’s (1368–1644) most exceptional yet understudied princes, Zhu Zhanshan 朱瞻墡 (1406–1478), Prince Xian of Xiang 襄憲王. It also complicates our understanding of Ming princes by recounting Zhu Zhanshan’s exceptional relationship with the Ming throne, which presents a unique case study of intense princely engagement in capital affairs. In pursuit of these endeavors, this essay recounts and analyzes the major events in Zhu Zhanshan’s life. These include his political engagements in Beijing during dynastic crises, intellectual developme
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Petrova, Maya. "On Medicine, Physicians, and Healers in Ancient Rome." Hypothekai 6 (2022): 40–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.32880/2587-7127-2022-6-6-40-77.

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The paper discusses the issue of the attitude towards medicine, physicians, and healers in Ancient Rome (1st – 5th centuries) based on ancient texts (Juv. Sat., Plin. Nat. Hist., Mart. Ep., etc.). It is shown that the profession of physician in Rome did not immediately receive recognition. The reasons for this are revealed: first, Romans did not consider medicine an art (science), and second, those who were associated with medicine were not Romans by origin and did not initially have civil rights. The collective biography of the Roman physician is reconstructed; it is based on the surviving te
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Emperors – biography"

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Holtgrefe, Jon Mark 1987. "The characterization of civil war: Literary, numismatic, and epigraphical presentations of the 'year of the four emperors'." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11626.

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viii, 113 p.<br>This thesis analyzes various literary, numismatic, and epigraphical narratives of the Roman civil war of 69CE, and the representations of the four emperors who fought in it. In particular the focus is on how the narratives and representations relate to one another. Such an investigation provides us with useful insight into the people and events of 69 and how contemporaries viewed the actors and the events. These various presentations, most notably the works of five ancient historians and biographers, give 69 the distinction of being one of the best documented years in all antiq
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Lilly, Marshall. "Companion to the Gods, Friend to the Empire: the Experiences and Education of the Emperor Julian and How It Influenced His Reign 361-363 AD." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc699909/.

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This thesis explores the life and reign of Julian the Apostate the man who ruled over the Roman Empire from A.D. 361-363. The study of Julian the Apostate’s reign has historically been eclipsed due to his clash with Christianity. After the murder of his family in 337 by his Christian cousin Constantius, Julian was sent into exile. These emotional experiences would impact his view of the Christian religion for the remainder of his life. Julian did have conflict with the Christians but his main goal in the end was the revival of ancient paganism and the restoration of the Empire back to her glor
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Cable, Alison. "The Emperor's new clothes : reading the real in George Eliot's life and fiction." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266717.

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Lam, Hung-yee, and 林雄兒. "A study of the governmental policy of Emperor Yang of theSui Dynasty." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31953074.

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Schwenk, Tina. "Maximilian I : a Habsburg on Montezuma's throne." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3433.

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The life and fate of Maximilian I, the last emperor of Mexico, has attracted a substantial amount of research since his death in 1867. However, these works either only deal with the last few years of Maximilian’s life, from his candidature for the Mexican throne to his death at the hands of the Mexican liberals, or with other aspects of his life such as his time as governor of Lombardy-Venetia. Thus the main aim of this thesis is to offer a biography of Maximilian, which will not only look at Maximilian’s reign as emperor of Mexico but will also examine the Habsburg aspect of the story. It is
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ARLANCH, FRANCESCO. "La struttura drammaturgica del film biografico nel cinema di Hollywood e nella televisione italiana." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/126.

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La tesi indaga le caratteristiche strutturali dei film di genere biografico prodotti nel contesto del cinema statunitense e della televisione italiana. Riconosciuto nel fatto che il personaggio protagonista è costruito ad imitazione della persona realmente esistita di cui porta il nome l'aspetto identificativo superficiale del film biografico, viene proposta la seguente, nuova interpretazione: quello biografico è un film la cui struttura drammaturgica esprime sulla forma di vita del proprio personaggio protagonista un giudizio di redenzione o di dannazione.<br>The dissertation explores the dis
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ARLANCH, FRANCESCO. "La struttura drammaturgica del film biografico nel cinema di Hollywood e nella televisione italiana." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/126.

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La tesi indaga le caratteristiche strutturali dei film di genere biografico prodotti nel contesto del cinema statunitense e della televisione italiana. Riconosciuto nel fatto che il personaggio protagonista è costruito ad imitazione della persona realmente esistita di cui porta il nome l'aspetto identificativo superficiale del film biografico, viene proposta la seguente, nuova interpretazione: quello biografico è un film la cui struttura drammaturgica esprime sulla forma di vita del proprio personaggio protagonista un giudizio di redenzione o di dannazione.<br>The dissertation explores the dis
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周灔燊. "西漢呂后研究 = A study on the empress dowager Lu in Former Han dynasty". Thesis, University of Macau, 2017. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3690448.

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Hayashi, Toshiaki. "Sources et signification du "Liber de Caesaribus" d'Aurélius Victor." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017UBFCC018/document.

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Le Liber de Caesaribus d’Aurélius Victor est une œuvre traitant des vies des empereurs romains à partir d’Auguste jusqu’à Constance II. Examiner des particularités sur les sources et la signification de ce livre, c’est le but de cette thèse. Le chapitre 1 traite de la vie de Victor selon les témoignages littéraires et épigraphiques. Le chapitre 2 parle des manuscrits du Livre des Césars. Nous ne possédons aujourd’hui que deux manuscrits de cette œuvre, mais il y en avait un troisième qui a disparu après XVIème siècle. Le chapitre 3 traite des sources du Livre des Césars en regardant les études
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Garrett, Phoebe. "Ancestry and Suetonius' De Vita Caesarum." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1036788.

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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>Each Life of Suetonius’ De Vita Caesarum is constructed carefully from the very beginning, leading the reader to a preconceived judgment of the Caesar by employing techniques from epideictic rhetoric, including the comparison of the subject with his ancestors. In nine of the twelve Lives, characterisation of the Caesar begins with a detailed family tree of the subject’s ancestors or a short biography of the father. This thesis explores the role of the ancestors in the Lives as status symbols and tools of characterisation. Suetonius surpasses o
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Books on the topic "Emperors – biography"

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McLynn, Frank. Napoleon: A Biography. Arcade Publishing, 2003.

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Athanassiadi, Polymnia. Julian: An intellectual biography. Routledge, 1992.

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Bleicken, Jochen. Augustus: Eine Biographie. A. Fest, 1998.

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Michael, Grant. The Roman emperors: A biographical guide to the rulers of imperial Rome, 31 BC-AD 476. Scribner's, 1985.

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Potter, D. S. Emperors of Rome: Imperial Rome from Julius Caesar to the last emperor. Quercus, 2008.

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Massie, Allan. The Caesars. Abacus, 1994.

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McLynn, Frank. Napoleon: A biography. Arcade Pub., 2011.

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Weider, Ben. Napoléon: Liberté, égalité, fraternité : essai. Éditions Trois-Pistoles, 1997.

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Julián, González, ed. Trajano, emperador de Roma: [Actas del Congreso Internacional]. L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2000.

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1943-, Suzuki Masayuki, ed. Kindai no tennō. Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, 1993.

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Book chapters on the topic "Emperors – biography"

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Krallis, Dimitris. "Paper, Parchment, and Ink: The Sources for Attaleiates’ Biography." In Serving Byzantium's Emperors. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04525-8_3.

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Weiss, Judith. "Arthur, Emperors, and Antichrists: The Formation of the Arthurian Biography." In Writers of the Reign of Henry II. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08855-0_12.

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Lerner, Robert E. "The Castle Hill." In Ernst Kantorowicz. Princeton University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691183022.003.0007.

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This chapter focuses on Ernst Kantorowicz's move to the castle hill, which ushered in a new phase in his life. The ruined Renaissance castle loomed on a hill overlooking Heidelberg from a height of three hundred feet. Kantorowicz lived there initially with Woldemar von Uxkull, who replaced Fine von Kahler as his amorous attachment. He also oriented his personal goals toward pleasing Stefan George and began writing his biography of the emperor Frederick II. Kantorowicz's decision to write about medieval ruler Frederick II can be attributed to George, which considered Frederick to have been “the
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Gibson, Roy K. "Writing a Modern Biography of an Ancient Roman." In Man of High Empire. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199948192.003.0002.

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Modern biographies of ancient individuals focus on emperors and generals, as a form of political or military history. A biography of a ‘private’ individual like Pliny raises more urgently the question of the distorting effects of our biographical norms. Modern biography encourages the recreation of a ‘unique individual’, insight into the effects of childhood, or the reconstruction of a rich inner life. Approaches of this sort are not suited to Pliny: he was not interested in the ‘interiority’ found in Catullus or Augustine. Pliny’s individuality can be captured by working along the grain of th
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Gibson, Roy K. "Pliny the Younger." In Man of High Empire. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199948192.003.0001.

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Within a century of his death, the Younger Pliny was already being confused with his famous uncle, the Elder Pliny. In the 1300s, the two were successfully disentangled, although the error of their origin in Verona (rather than Como) was spread. Statues of the Plinii were erected on Como cathedral in the 1480s as part of a campaign to reassert their citizenship of Roman Comum. Biographical interest in the Younger remained strong in the centuries that followed. Pliny remains the best documented Roman individual, other than emperors, between Cicero and Augustine. The present biography will tell
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Schulz, Verena. "Historiographical Responses to Flavian Responses to Nero." In Flavian Responses to Nero’s Rome. Amsterdam University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463725248_ch11.

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This article focuses on the reception of the Flavian responses to Nero in post-Flavian historiography and biography. First, it analyses the passages in which Tacitus has the Neronian and the Flavian narrative interact in the Annals, the Histories, and the Agricola. Tacitus mainly represents the Flavian distance from Nero in the case of Vespasian (and Titus). Domitian, however, is not distanced from Nero. Second, the article shows how Suetonius presents a similar evaluation of the Flavian relationships with Nero in even clearer terms. Third, Cassius Dio is analysed as being interested in these
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Pitcher, Luke. "The Life of Appian." In Appian. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198923954.003.0001.

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Abstract This chapter collects and analyses the evidence for the biography of Appian. It considers in turn the three main sources of this evidence: letters which the second century ce intellectual Cornelius Fronto wrote concerning and to someone called ‘Appian’; a second century ce epitaph on a sarcophagus in Rome written by a man called ‘Appian’ for himself and his wife, Eutukhia; and what the historian Appian says about himself, primarily in the Preface to the Roman History, but also in scattered remarks throughout it. A plausible picture emerges, of an affluent man, married but childless, b
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"Emperors and Empire. Marcus Aurelius and Commodus." In Zwischen Strukturgeschichte und Biographie. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110446661-015.

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Atkins, Paul S. "A Documentary Biography." In Teika. University of Hawai'i Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824858506.003.0002.

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Teika lived to the age of eighty, and we have a great deal of information about his life. Much of it comes from his own diary, Meigetsuki, which he kept for over fifty years. Teika was born into a literary house and achieved early success as a poet, but suffered a number of setbacks, including the fall from power of his patrons, the Kujō family. He returned to the center of poetic activity thanks to the backing of Retired Emperor Go-Toba, commissioner of the eighth imperial anthology of waka poetry, the Shin Kokinshū. After Teika and Go-Toba became estranged, Teika’s career advanced even furth
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Hurley, Donna W. "Rhetorics of Assassination: Ironic Reversal and the Emperor Gaius." In Suetonius the Biographer. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199697106.003.0008.

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Conference papers on the topic "Emperors – biography"

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Ignatenko, Alexander. "A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND PROTOTYPES IN THE POEM THE SONG OF EVERLASTING SORROW (806) BY BAI JUYI." In 10th International Conference "Issues of Far Eastern Literatures (IFEL 2022)". St. Petersburg State University, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288063770.02.

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The article offers an analysis of some structural features of the poetic semantics of the poem The Song of Everlasting Sorrow by Bai Juyi (白居易《长恨歌》, 806) in biographical, historical and cultural contexts, and also draws a parallel with possible prototypes. In this regard, the main purpose of the article is to consider some semantic and structural connections related to the chronotope, archetypes and prototypes on the material of the The Song. During the work on the study, it was found out that the narrative model of “avoiding facts” (避实就虚) was used in the plot of the poem, superimposed on fact
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