OHB ANCIENT BIOGRAPHY OHBK C

This Handbook presents the first wide-ranging survey on biography in Antiquity from its earliest representations to Late Antiquity. It offers in-depth readings of key texts and diachronic studies, examines biographical depictions in different textual and visual media, and deals with the reception of ancient biography across multiple eras.

Koen De Temmerman is a Professor of Classics and European Literature at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the author of Crafting Characters: Heroes and Heroines in the Ancient Greek Novel (OUP 2014) and the co-editor of Writing Biography in Greece and Rome: Narrative Technique and Fictionalization (Cambridge 2016, with K. Demoen) and Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature (Leiden 2018, with E. van Emde Boas).

Part I. Introduction
1: Koen De Temmerman: Writing (About) Ancient Lives: Scholarship, Definitions and Concepts
2: Sean A. Adams: What are Bioi/Vitae? Generic Self-Consciousness in Ancient Biography
3: Jeffrey Beneker: Individual and Collected Lives in Antiquity
4: Ioannis M. Konstantakos: Popular Biography
5: Joseph Geiger: Jewish Biography
6: Scott Fitzgerald Johnson: Christian Biography
Part II. Reading Biographies
7: Christopher Pelling: Fifth-Century Preliminaries
8: Takis Poulakos: Isocrates' Evagoras: The Educational Ends of the 'First' Biography in Classical Greece
9: Noreen Humble: Xenophon of Athens
10: Tiziano Dorandi: Ex uno fonte multi rivuli? Unity and Multiplicity in Hellenistic Biography
11: Rex Stem: Nepos' Life of Atticus, Nicolaus' Life of Caesar and the Genre of Political Biography in the Age of Augustus
12: Christopher Whitton: Biography and Praise in Trajanic Rome: Tacitus' Agricola and Pliny's Panegyricus
13: Aristoula Georgiadou and Michele A. Lucchesi: Plutarch's Parallel Lives
14: Luc Van der Stockt: Plutarch: Lives of the Caesars (Galba, Otho) and Lives of Aratus and Artaxerxes
15: Dennis Pausch: Types of Life-Writing in Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars and Illustrious Men
16: Corinne Jouanno: The Alexander Romance
17: Graham Anderson: Lucian: Satirical and Idealising Lives (Peregrinus, Alexander, Demonax)
18: Adam Kemezis: The Biographer as Literary Artist: Form and Content in Philostratus' Apollonius
19: Stephen White: Diogenes Laertius and Philosophical Lives
20: James Corke-Webster: A Bishop's Biography: Eusebius of Caesarea and The Life of Constantine
21: Michael Stuart Williams: Augustine's Confessions as Autobiography
22: Jason König: Solitude and Biography in Jerome's Life of Hilarion
Part III. Tracing Biographees
23: Suzanne Saïd: : Lives of Homer
24: Jacqueline Klooster: Ancient Biographies of Statesmen
25: Kendra Eshleman: Sophists
26: Graeme Miles: Philosophers and their Neoplatonic Lives: Problemsand Paradigms
27: Danny Praet: Holy Men: Lives of Miracle Workers, Apostles, and Saints
28: Koen De Temmerman and Danny Praet: Martyrs and Life-Writing in Late Antiquity
29: Mark Edwards: Monastic Lives
Part IV. Cultures
30: Muriel Debié: Syriac Biography
31: Arietta Papaconstantinou: Coptic Life Stories
32: S. Peter Cowe: Armenian Biography in Late Antiquity
33: Faustina Doufikar-Aerts: Arabic Biography
Part V. Media
34: Elizabeth Frood: Biographical Monuments: Displaying Selves and Lives in Ancient Egypt
35: Christof Schuler and Florian R. Forster: Engraved Lives: Biographical Material in Epigraphical Sources
36: Zahra Newby: Depicted Lives: The Role of The Visual Arts in Sophistic Self-Representation
37: Eric Varner: Triumphant Lives: Portraits, Statues and Triumphal Arches in Imperial Rome
Part VI. Reception
38: Martin Hinterberger: Byzantine Biography
39: Lars Boje Mortensen: Roman Biography in the Medieval West: Did Classical Texts Facilitate Complex Literary Portraits in the Middle Ages?
40: Thomas Hendrickson: Ancient Biography and the Italian Renaissance: Old Models and New Developments
41: Enrica Zanin: Ancient Biography in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
42: Nora Goldschmidt: After-Lives: Biographical Receptions of Greek and Roman Poets in the Twentieth Century