Writing biography in Greece and Rome narrative technique and fictionalization
Machine generated contents note: Preface; Part I. Ancient Biography Revisited: 1. Ancient biography and formalities of fiction Koen De Temmerman; 2. Civic and subversive biography in antiquity David Konstan and Robyn Walsh; Part II. Individual Biographies: 3. Life of Aesop: fictional biography as popular literature? Grammatiki Karla; 4. Parallel narratives and possible worlds in Plutarch's Life of Artaxerxes Eran Almagor; 5. Lucian's Life of Demonax: the Socratic paradigm, individuality and personality Mark Beck; 6. The Apologia as a mise en abyme in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana Patrick Robiano; 7. The emended monk: the Greek translation of Jerome's Vita Malchi Christa Gray; 8. The divided cloak as redemptio militiae: Biblical stylization and hagiographical intertextuality in Sulpicius Severus' Vita Martini Danny Praet; Part III. Collective Biographies: 9. Mirroring virtues in Plutarch's Lives of Agis, Cleomenes and Gracchi Maarten De Pourcq and Geert Roskam; 10. Dying philosophers in ancient biography: Zeno the Stoic and Epicurus Eleni Kechagia; 11. Never say die! Assassinating emperors in Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars Rhiannon Ash; 12. Poetry and fiction in Suetonius' Illustrious Men Tristan Power; 13. Qui vitas aliorum scribere orditur: narratological implications of fictional authors in the Historia Augusta Diederik Burgersdijk; Part IV. Biographical Modes of Discourse: 14. Chion of Heraclea: letters and the life of a tyrannicide John Paul Christy; 15. Brief encounter: timing and biographical representation in the Ps. Hippocratic letters Ranja Knobl; 16. A shaggy thigh story: Kalasiris on the life of Homer (Heliodorus 3.14) Luke V. Pitcher.