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Subject(s)

• Latin prose literature—History and criticism [Browse]
• Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern—History and criticism [Browse]

Editor

• Dorey, T. A. (Thomas Alan) [Browse]

Series

• Routledge revivals. [More in this series]
• Routledge Revivals Series

Summary note

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.

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Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Original Title
• Original Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• I. Nepos-An Introduction to Latin Biography
• II. Quintus Curtius Rufus
• III. Plutarch
• IV. Suetonius and his Influence
• V. The Augustan History
• VI. William of Poitiers: Gesta Guillelmi
• VII. Two Biographies by William of Malmesbury
• VIII. The Lives of St. Francis
• Index of Names.

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ISBN

9781000999051 ((electronic bk.))

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