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Biography

Secular Biography

Plutarch's Lives

Lives online (from the Loeb edition), or at MIT

For a translation from 1836 see Google

D. A. Russell, Plutarch (London, Duckworth, 1972)

  • A. K. Wardman, Plutarch's Lives (London, Elek, 1974)
  • B. Scardigli, (ed.) Essays on Plutarch's Lives (Oxford 1995)
  • Pagan biography
    Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana. Translations: (a) by C. P. Jones, (Loeb 2005); (b) Conybeare ed., online 
    G. Anderson, Philostratus: Biography and Belles Lettres in the Third Century AD (London, Sydney, New Hampshire 1986)
  • Christian Biography

    Discussions

  • P. Cox, Biography in late antiquity: a quest for the holy man (Berkeley 1983) rev. Chadwick, TLS 16 March 1984, 272
  • R. A. Burridge, What are the Gospels? : a comparison with Graeco-Roman biography (Cambridge, 1995)
  • M. J. Edwards and S. Swain edd., Portraits: Biographical Representation in the Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman Empire (Oxford, 1997)
  • R. A. Burridge, 'Biography' in Stanley E. Porter, ed. Handbook of classical rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period, 330 B.C.-A.D. 400 (Leiden , 1997), 371-91
  • Tomas Hägg and Philip Rousseau edd, Greek biography and panegyric in late antiquity (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000)
  • Michael Williams, Authorised lives in early Christian biography (Cambridge, 2008)
  • Constantine

  • Averil Cameron, 'Eusebius' Vita Constantini and the construction of Constantine', in Edwards and Swain (above), 145-74
  • C. Rapp, 'Comparison, Paradigm, and the Case of Moses in Panegyric and Hagiography', in M. Whitby ed., The propaganda of power; the role of panegyric in late antiquity (Leiden, 1998), 277-98
  • Averil Cameron, 'Form and Meaning: the Vita Constantini and the Vita Antonii', in Hägg and Rousseau (above), 72-88
  • A. Wilson, Biographical models: the Constantinian period and beyond', in S. N. C. Lieu and D. Montserrat edd., Constantine, History, Historiography and Legend (London, 1998), 107-35

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