Early lives -- Biography in the ancient world : the story of the rise of David / Andrew D.H. Mayes -- The biographies of poets : the case of Solon / Elizabeth Irwin -- Holy lives? -- Reading the gospels as biography / Richard A. Burridge -- Gospel and genre : some reservations / Mark Edwards -- Mark's gospel and ancient biography / Sean Freyne -- The acts of the Apostles as biography / Justin Taylor -- Cynic influence upon first-century Judaism and early Christianity? / John Moles -- Philo's adaptation of the Bible in his Life of Moses / Brian McGing -- Portrait of the Sophist as a young man / Ewen Bowie -- Holy and not so holy : on the interpretation of late antique biography / John Dillon -- Self-presentation -- Justice for Justus : a re-examination of Justus of Tiberias' role in Josephus' Autobiography / Zuleika Rodgers -- Sacred writing, sacred reading : the function of Aelius Aristides' self-presentation as author in the Sacred tales / Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis -- Dreams of glory : Lucian as autobiographer / Noreen Humble and Keith Sidwell -- The cynic and Christian lives of Lucian's Peregrinus / Jason König -- Lives on the edge -- Breaking the bounds : writing about Julius Caesar / Christopher Pelling -- Travel writing, history, and biography / Judith Mossman -- 'This in-between book' : language, politics and genre in the Agricola / Tim Whitmarsh -- Writing lives -- Biography in letters : biography and letters / Michael Trapp -- Lords of the flies : literacy and tyranny in imperial biography / Alexei V. Zadorojnyi -- Beyond the limits -- Beyond the limits of Greek biography : Galen from Alexandria to the Arabs / Simon Swain
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
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