Latin Biography

ISBN-13: 9781032609690 / Twarda / 2023 / 219 str.

Opis

First published in 1967, Latin Biography contains chapters on Nepos, Plutarch and Suetonius, the three best-known Classical biographers. There are also accounts of the less-familiar works of Q. Curtius Rufus and the author – or authors – of the Historia Augusta.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Nepos – An Introduction to Latin Biography 2. Quintus Curtius Rufus 3. Plutarch 4. Suetonius and Influence 5. The Augustan History 6. William of Poitiers: Gesta Guilelmi 7. Two Biographies by William of Malmesbury 8. The Lives of St. Francis Index of Names

O autorze

T. A. Dorey