The limits of ancient biography /
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Swansea : Oakville, CT :
Classical Press of Wales ; Distributor in the United States, David Brown Book Co.,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
