Book contents
- Writing Biography in Greece and Rome
- Writing Biography in Greece and Rome
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Part I Ancient biography revisited
- Part II Individual biographies
- Part III Collective biographies
- Chapter 9 Mirroring virtues in Plutarch’s Lives of Agis, Cleomenes and the Gracchi
- Chapter 10 Dying philosophers in ancient biography
- Chapter 11 Never say die!
- Chapter 12 Poetry and fiction in Suetonius’ Illustrious Men
- Chapter 13 Qui vitas aliorum scribere orditur
- Part IV Biographical modes of discourse
- Bibliography
- General index
- Index locorum
Chapter 10 - Dying philosophers in ancient biography
Zeno the Stoic and Epicurus
from Part III - Collective biographies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2016
- Writing Biography in Greece and Rome
- Writing Biography in Greece and Rome
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Part I Ancient biography revisited
- Part II Individual biographies
- Part III Collective biographies
- Chapter 9 Mirroring virtues in Plutarch’s Lives of Agis, Cleomenes and the Gracchi
- Chapter 10 Dying philosophers in ancient biography
- Chapter 11 Never say die!
- Chapter 12 Poetry and fiction in Suetonius’ Illustrious Men
- Chapter 13 Qui vitas aliorum scribere orditur
- Part IV Biographical modes of discourse
- Bibliography
- General index
- Index locorum
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- Writing Biography in Greece and RomeNarrative Technique and Fictionalization, pp. 181 - 199Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016
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