1st Edition

Latin Biography

Edited By T A Dorey Copyright 1967
223 Pages
by Routledge

223 Pages
by Routledge

223 Pages
by Routledge

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, and three chapters deal with the development of Latin biography in the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages were indebted to Suetonius,... Read more

Introduction 1. Nepos – An Introduction to Latin Biography Edna Jenkinson 2. Quintus Curtius Rufus E. I. McQueen 3. Plutarch A. J. Gossage 4. Suetonius and Influence G. B. Townend 5. The Augustan History A. R. Birley 6. William of Poitiers: Gesta Guilelmi T. A. Dorey 7. Two Biographies by William of Malmesbury D. H. Farmer 8. The Lives of St. Francis Rosalind Brooke Index of Names

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T. A. Dorey