Johanna Hanink

Richard Fletcher

This book examines how the biographical traditions of ancient poets and artists parallel the creative processes of biographers themselves, both within antiquity and beyond. Each chapter explores a range of biographical material that highlights the complexity of how readers and viewers imagine the lives of ancient creator-figures.

Poets, Artists and Biography

Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity

The first account of how Athens invented the notion of 'classical' tragedy during the later fourth century BC.

Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy

“Greek debt” means one thing to the country’s creditors. But for millions who prize culture over capital, it means the symbolic debt we owe Greece for democracy, philosophy, mathematics, and fine art. Johanna Hanink shows that our idealized image of ancient Greece dangerously shapes our view of the country’s economic hardship and refugee crisis.

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