Abbreviations -- Classical Greece/ V.J. Gray -- Royal autobiography in the Hellenistic age/ Cinzia Bearzot -- The Hellenistic age: autobiography and political struggles/ Gabriele Marasco -- Republican Rome: autobiography and political struggles/ J.M. Candau -- The late republic: autobiographies and memoirs in the age of the civil wars/ Jeffrey Tatum -- Caesar and the Corpus Caesarianum/ Marc Mayer -- The Augustan Age/ Joseph Geiger -- Augustus: the emperor writes his own account/ Ronald Thomas Ridley -- The early empire/ Pere Villalba Varneda -- The second and third century/ Richard Westall and Frederick Brenk -- The late empire/ Hartmut Leppin
Summary
Through the examination of political autobiographies and memoirs, some preserved in their entirety, others known only from fragments, this book offers a fascinating picture of the way characters who stand out in history saw and represented themselves and their own political actions