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A N C I E N T B I O G R A P H Y ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... ANCIENT BIOGRAPHY ................................................................................................................................................................................................ Edited by KOEN DE TEMMERMAN 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. 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A .............................................................................................. D its long gestation period, the volume has benefitted greatly from the help and support of a number of people. It is my delightful duty, first and foremost, to thank wholeheartedly all contributors for their hard work and the pleasant collaboration. My warmestthanksalsogotoHilaryO’Shea,thecommissioningeditoratOUPwhoinvitedme to put together this volume, to Charlotte Loveridge, who took over its supervision in the process,andtoAlexanderJohnson,JennyKing,andGeorginaLeightonfortheirkindand mostprofessionalguidancealongtheway. The initial proposal for this book has been improved considerably thanks to the suggestions and comments of the referees at OUP. My thoughts on ancient life-writing have further been enriched by stimulating discussions with Kristoffel Demoen, Stephen Harrison, Irene de Jong, Wolfgang de Melo, Chris Pelling, Danny Praet, and Tim Whit- marsh. For editorial assistance, IthankPaulineDeGroote, Lotte VanOlmen,andRobbe VandeVelde.SpecialthanksgotoEvelienBracke,whojoinedtheprojectduringitsfinal stageandhasprovidedindispensableandcharacteristicallyefficientpracticalandeditorial support;andtoSusanDunsmoreforcopy-editing. Finally, a warm note of gratitude and love goes to my parents, Ignace and Linda, to Lieselot, and to Jacob and Isaac. To them the story of my own life owes its vividness anddelight. This project has received funding from the European Research Council under both the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/–; Starting Grant Agreementn°)andtheEuropeanUnion’sHorizonresearchandinnovation programme(ConsolidatorGrantAgreementn°). C ............................................. Preface xi ListofIllustrations xiii ListofAbbreviations xv ListofContributors xxi PART I INTRODUCTION fi . Writing (about) Ancient Lives: Scholarship, De nitions, and Concepts KDT . What Are Bioi/Vitae? Generic Self-Consciousness in Ancient Biography SA.A . Individual and Collected Lives in Antiquity JB . Popular Biography IM.K . Jewish Biography JG . Christian Biography SFJ PART II READING BIOGRAPHIES . Fifth-Century Preliminaries CP ’ ‘ ’ . Isocrates Evagoras: The Educational Ends of the First Biography in Classical Greece TP . Xenophon of Athens NH viii . Ex uno fonte multi rivuli? Unity and Multiplicity in Hellenistic Biography TD ’ ’ . Nepos Life of Atticus, Nicolaus Life of Caesar, and the Genre of Political Biography in the Age of Augustus RS ’ . Biography and Praise in Trajanic Rome: Tacitus Agricola ’ and Plinys Panegyricus CW ’ . Plutarchs Parallel Lives AGMA.L . Plutarch: Lives of the Caesars (Galba, Otho) and Lives of Aratus and Artaxerxes LVS ’ . Types of Life-Writing in Suetonius Lives of the Caesars and Illustrious Men DP . The Alexander Romance CJ . Lucian: Satirical and Idealizing Lives (Peregrinus, Alexander, Demonax) GA . The Biographer as Literary Artist: Form and Content in ’ Philostratus Apollonius AM.K . Diogenes Laertius and Philosophical Lives SW ’ . A Bishops Biography: Eusebius of Caesarea and the Life of Constantine JC-W ’ . Augustines Confessions as Autobiography MSW ’ . Solitude and Biography in Jeromes Life of Hilarion JKö ix PART III TRACING BIOGRAPHEES . Lives of Homer SSï . Ancient Biographies of Statesmen JK . Sophists KE . Philosophers and their Neoplatonic Lives: Problems and Paradigms GM . Holy Men: Lives of Miracle Workers, Apostles, and Saints DP . Martyrs and Life-Writing in Late Antiquity KDTDP . Monastic Lives ME PART IV CULTURES . Syriac Biography MD´ . Coptic Life Stories AP . Armenian Biography in Late Antiquity S.PC . Arabic Biography FD-A PART V MEDIA . Biographical Monuments: Displaying Selves and Lives in Ancient Egypt EF
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