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
- Chapter 3 Life of Aesop: Fictional biography as popular literature?
- Chapter 4 Parallel narratives and possible worlds in Plutarch’s Life of Artaxerxes
- Chapter 5 Lucian’s Life of Demonax
- Chapter 6 The Apologia as a mise-en-abyme in Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana
- Chapter 7 The emended monk
- Chapter 8 The divided cloak as redemptio militiae
- Part III Collective biographies
- Part IV Biographical modes of discourse
- Bibliography
- General index
- Index locorum
Chapter 5 - Lucian’s Life of Demonax
The Socratic paradigm, individuality, and personality
from Part II - Individual 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
- Chapter 3 Life of Aesop: Fictional biography as popular literature?
- Chapter 4 Parallel narratives and possible worlds in Plutarch’s Life of Artaxerxes
- Chapter 5 Lucian’s Life of Demonax
- Chapter 6 The Apologia as a mise-en-abyme in Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana
- Chapter 7 The emended monk
- Chapter 8 The divided cloak as redemptio militiae
- Part III Collective biographies
- 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. 80 - 96Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016
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